{"id":134812,"date":"2022-01-28T04:24:21","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T12:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/simulations-show-iron-catalyzes-corrosion-in-inert-carbon-dioxide"},"modified":"2022-01-28T04:24:21","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T12:24:21","slug":"simulations-show-iron-catalyzes-corrosion-in-inert-carbon-dioxide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/simulations-show-iron-catalyzes-corrosion-in-inert-carbon-dioxide","title":{"rendered":"Simulations show iron catalyzes corrosion in \u2018inert\u2019 carbon dioxide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/simulations-show-iron-catalyzes-corrosion-in-inert-carbon-dioxide2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Iron that rusts in water theoretically shouldn\u2019t corrode in contact with an \u201cinert\u201d supercritical fluid of carbon dioxide. But it does.<\/p>\n<p>The reason has eluded <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/materials+scientists\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">materials scientists<\/a> to now, but a team at Rice University has a theory that could contribute to new strategies to protect iron from the environment.<\/p>\n<p>Materials theorist Boris Yakobson and his colleagues at Rice\u2019s George R. Brown School of Engineering found through atom-level simulations that iron itself plays a role in its own corrosion when exposed to supercritical CO<sub>2<\/sub> (sCO<sub>2<\/sub>) and trace amounts of water by promoting the formation of reactive species in the fluid that come back to attack it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iron that rusts in water theoretically shouldn\u2019t corrode in contact with an \u201cinert\u201d supercritical fluid of carbon dioxide. But it does. The reason has eluded materials scientists to now, but a team at Rice University has a theory that could contribute to new strategies to protect iron from the environment. Materials theorist Boris Yakobson and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}