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The coaxial coating of multi-wall carbon nanotubes (MWCNT) with poly(aniline) (PANI) was synthesised and a paint was prepared containing conducting PANI-MWCNT composite. The corrosion protection performance was assessed by open circuit potential measurements, potentiodynamic polarisation, and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy. The corrosion rate of low-carbon steel coated with 1.5 mass % of PANI-MWCNT-based paint in 3.5 mass % sodium chloride solution was found to be 0.037 mm y−1, about 5.2 times lower than that of unpainted low-carbon steel and 3.6 times lower than that of epoxy painted steel.

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Conducting polyaniline powder was synthesized chemically and paints containing conducting polyaniline powder were applied on low carbon steel samples. The conducting polyaniline powder was char acterized by UV-Visible absorption spectroscopy and the morphology of paint coating on low carbon steel was studied by scanning electron microscopy. The corrosion protection performance of the coating was eval uated by using potentiodynamic polarization techniques and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy. It has been found that the 2 wt % polyaniline-hydrochloric acid based paint coating offers maximum corrosion protection to low carbon steel in chloride medium.