Graphene oxide as a potential nanocarrier for Zn(II) to fabricate a dual-functional active/passive protection; sorption/desorption characteristics and electrochemical evaluation

Herein, we demonstrated a facile non-covalent functionalization route to exploit the GO sheets as an efficient carrier for high loading of Zn(II) corrosion inhibitor with the controllable slow release. The Zn(II) intercalated GO exhibited good compatibility with epoxy matrix stemming from the chemical and structural alterations as confirmed by Raman analysis along with XPS, FE-SEM and HRTEM. The kinetics of Zn(II) release from the GO carrier...