In the present review we survey the main advances made in recent years on the
understanding of chemical chirality at solid surfaces. Chirality is an important topic, made …

Research on surface chirality is motivated by the need to develop functional chiral surfaces
for enantiospecific applications. While molecular chirality in 3D has been the subject of study …

Amino acids are the promising biomolecules as eco-friendly inhibitors for the corrosion
protection of materials. In this work, two amino acid derivatives (MPT and BPT) were …

Molecular modeling of corrosion inhibitors has gained momentum in the last decade. This
paper describes various approaches, starting with the so-called MEPTIC (Molecular …

Cysteine amino acid is well known as an effective green corrosion inhibitor. Due to the
structural similarity between d-penicillamine (PA) drug and cysteine, it is expected PA also …

Amino acids and peptides are often used as “model” segments of proteins for studying their
behavior in various types of environments, and/or elaborating functional surfaces. Indeed …

Corrosion is a real industrial scourge; it is defined as the degradation of a material in
corrosive environments such as seawater and acids, causing a huge economic loss …

The bonding of the cysteine amino acid and the structurally similar penicillamine drug on Fe
(110) was characterized by means of DFT calculations, because both molecules were …

The search for novel corrosion inhibitors is a never-ending and challenging task.
Computational studies are fundamental to assessing the interaction of inhibitor molecules …

Self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) are widely used in science and engineering, and recent
progress has demonstrated the utility of zwitterionic peptides with alternating lysine (K) and …