TY - CHAP AU - Araceli Mandujano Ruiz AU - Luis-Enrique Corona Almazán AU - Héctor Herrera Hernández AU - Jorge Morales Hernández ED - Mahmood Aliofkhazraei Y1 - 2018-02-13 PY - 2018 T1 - Opuntia ficus-indica (Nopal Extract) as Green Inhibitor for Corrosion Protection in Industrial Steels N2 - To protect metals or alloys from corrosion, some methods can be used such as isolating the structure from the aggressive media or compensating the loss of electrons from the corroded structure. The use of corrosion inhibitors may include organic and inorganic compounds that adsorb on the metallic structure to isolate it from its surrounding media to decrease oxidation-reduction processes. This book collects new developments about corrosion inhibitors and their recent applications. BT - Corrosion Inhibitors, Principles and Recent Applications SP - Ch. 7 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.72944 DO - 10.5772/intechopen.72944 SN - 978-953-51-3918-8 PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-03-29 ER -