Electrochemical Study of Corrosion Inhibition on Copper in Base Electrolyte by 1-Phenyl-3-Hydroxy-1,2,4-Triazole

This paper presents the investigation of 1-Phenyl-3-hydroxy-1,2,4-triazole as a new green Cu corrosion inhibitor for Electronic Circuit Board in the base electrolyte (containing 60ppm chloride ions,0.54M H2SO4 and 0.88M CuSO4).The inhibition action was investigated by potentiodynamic polarization and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS).The results show that the inhibition performance depends on the concentration of the inhibitor and the inhibition efficiency increases with increasing inhibitor concentration. Potentiodynamic polarization studies show that 1-Phenyl-3-hydroxy-1,2,4-triazole acts as the mixed-type inhibitor.The results obtained from EIS measurements are in good agreement with that obtained from potentiodynamic polarization.