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Screening a green corrosion inhibitor that can prevent Al anode corrosion and enhance the battery performance is highly significant for developing next-generation Al–air batteries. This work explores the non-toxic, environmentally safe, and nitrogen-rich amino acid derivative, N(α)-Boc-l-tryptophan (BCTO), as a green corrosion inhibitor for Al anodes. Our results confirm that BCTO has an excellent corrosion inhibition effect for the Al-5052 alloy in 4 M NaOH solution. An optimum inhibitor addition (2 mM) has increased the Al–air battery performance; the corrosion inhibition efficiency was 68.2%, and the anode utilization efficiency reached 92.0%. The capacity and energy density values increased from 990.10 mA h g–1 and 1317.23 W h kg–1 of the uninhibited system to 2739.70 mA h g–1 and 3723.53 W h kg–1 for the 2 mM BCTO added system. The adsorption behavior of BCTO on the Al-5052 surface was further explored by theoretical calculations. This work paves the way for constructing durable Al–air batteries through an electrolyte regulation strategy.

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The corrosion of carbon steel is always a very serious issue, and the addition of corrosion inhibitors is an effective approach to prohibiting the corrosion of carbon steel. Because expired drugs are environmentally friendly, green, and non‐toxic; thus, this work provides a new idea for the treatment of expired drugs. The expired flunarizine hydrochloride (FH) is used as corrosion inhibitors for Q235 steel, investigating the corrosion inhibition efficiency of expired FH with different concentrations for carbon steel and illustrating the corrosion inhibition mechanism. Electrochemical impedance and Tafel curves are used to investigate the corrosion inhibition of carbon steel under 1 M HCl solution with different concentrations of the expired FH, and the corrosion efficiency is calculated according to the immersion tests, and the corrosion inhibition efficiency is more than 88.5%. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM), Fourier transform infrared spectrometer (FTIR), and Raman spectroscopy strongly support the results of the electrochemical experiment. Besides, the simulation results also provide the strong supports for the experimental results.

Generally, MoS2 is easily oxidized when exposed to oxygen, and the antioxidation mechanism of MoS2 is still a challenge. Thus, more efforts were made to greatly improve its antioxidation performance. It was reported that the Ti atom doped with MoS2 was treated as the effective method to enhance its antioxidation performance; however, the detailed antioxidation mechanism was not well understood. Superior to experimental methods, the first-principles method could provide deep insight into the atomic information and serve as a useful tool to gain an understanding of the antioxidation mechanisms of the doped MoS2; thus, the antioxidation behavior of the Ti-doped MoS2 was investigated in detail using first-principles calculations. However, an opposing conclusion was obtained from the calculated results compared to the previous experimental results; that is, the incorporation of the Ti atom was not helpful for improving the antioxidation performance of MoS2. The strange phenomenon was well probed and discussed in detail, and understanding the oxidation mechanism of the Ti-doped MoS2 would be helpful for expanding its applications in the ambient atmosphere.