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Aranka Pilbáth, Ph. D. student

Address: H-1025 Budapest, Pusztaszeri út 59-67., Bldg. IV, Room 20
 P.O. Box: H-1525 Budapest, Pf. 17.
Telephone: (361) 438-1100/525
 Fax:  (361) 438-1143
E-mail: ari { at } chemres { dot } hu
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Research Interests 
The main interest of my work is the research of environmentally friendly corrosion inhibitors for zinc. Chemical surface modification of metals by self-assembling is a new promising method to protect metal surface. Self-assembled monolayers are molecular assemblies that are formed spontaneously by the immersion of a substrate into a solution of an active surfactant. Usually alkane derivatives with one or two functional groups are used to build up self-assembled mono- or multilayers. Due to their dense, ordered and stable structure, SAMs have potential applications in corrosion prevention.

Electrochemical techniques (EIS, polarization) are used to study the mechanism of corrosion, inhibition and protective effect of the developed layers. Contact angle measurement and surface analytical techniques available in our institute are applied for morphological and wettability study of the treated surfaces.