Advanced Anti-Corrosive Materials, CRC, Ghent, Belgium , ss.36-61, 2026
Corrosion is a common threat to many industries that continues to silently erode, weaken, and destroy structures and materials every second. Therefore, the prevention and control of corrosion are of great importance in terms of sustainability, economy, and safety. Even though various corrosion prevention methods have been developed to date, researchers have recently focused on the development and fabrication of green, cost-effective, efficient, and multifunctional anti-corrosive materials. As effective nanomaterials for a broad range of applications, such as bioimaging, biosensors, drug/gene delivery, photodynamic therapy, optoelectronics, energy storage, food safety, catalysis, and water treatment, carbon quantum dots (CQDs) are promising materials for corrosion applications. The use of CQDs and their composites as anti-corrosive materials offers several advantages due to their unique properties, such as eco-friendliness, low toxicity, excellent stability, tunable surface chemistry, and cost-effective production. Ongoing research aims to optimize the synthesis methods and surface functionalization of CQDs to further enhance their corrosion inhibition performance and expand their applications in various industries and infrastructure systems.