Ill-Min, ChungKathirvel, KalaiselviAsokan, SasirekaSeung-Hyun, KimMayakrishnan, Prabakaran2023-11-232023-11-232019https://doi.org/10.1080/01932691.2018.1511435The inhibitive performance of methanolic extract of eco-friendly green inhibitor Spiraea cantoniensis (S. cantoniensis) on inhibiting corrosion of mild steel (MS) in 1 M HCl was studied by weight loss, AC-impedance, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), Raman, x-ray diffraction (XRD), ultraviolet-visible (UV-Vis), atomic absorption spectroscopy (AAS), and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) analysis. The results showed that the corrosion rate significantly decreased in the presence of the S. cantoniensis inhibitor with a gradual increase in inhibition efficiency at an increased inhibitor concentration. The temperature studies were conducted which included activation energy (Ea), change in enthalpy (ΔH°ads), change in entropy (ΔS°ads), change in free energy (ΔG°ads) and heat of adsorption (Qads). These calculations were helpful to determine the reaction mechanism and proved it as a physisorption type following the Langmuir adsorption isotherm. The analysis of the protective film using FT-IR, Raman, XRD, and SEM analysis clearly showed the potentiality of S. cantoniensis in blocking the MS surface to prevent corrosion by 1 M HCl. The solution analysis via AAS and UV-Vis showed the inhibitive effect of the inhibitor (S. cantoniensis) in both inhibitive and the uninhibitive solution exhibiting the adsorption of the phytochemical molecules on the MS surface.en-USSpiraea cantoniensiselectrochemicalXRDRamanSEMArticle