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Overview

Anton Kokalj is a researcher affiliated with the Jožef Stefan Institute in Slovenia. Their work primarily focuses on materials science and engineering, with notable contributions to materials chemistry, civil and structural engineering, metals and alloys, as well as electrical and electronic engineering.

The researcher has a significant publication record in the field of corrosion behavior and inhibition, with additional interests in concrete corrosion and durability, hydrogen embrittlement and corrosion behaviors in metals, electrocatalysts for energy conversion, molecular junctions and nanostructures, copper-based nanomaterials and applications, and catalytic processes in materials science.

Among the recent papers authored or co-authored by Anton Kokalj are:

  • Corrosion inhibitors: physisorbed or chemisorbed? (2021, Corrosion Science)
  • Simplistic correlations between molecular electronic properties and inhibition efficiencies: Do they really exist? (2020, Corrosion Science)
  • Molecular modeling of organic corrosion inhibitors: Calculations, pitfalls, and conceptualization of molecule-surface bonding (2021, Corrosion Science)
  • On the use of the Langmuir and other adsorption isotherms in corrosion inhibition (2023, Corrosion Science)

Anton Kokalj frequently collaborates with a number of co-authors, including Ingrid Milošev, Lea Gašparič, Matic Poberžnik, Daniel Crespo, and Marjan Bele. These collaborations reflect a network of scientific partnerships across various topics related to corrosion and materials science.

The researcher's work is often published in venues such as Corrosion Science, SSRN Electronic Journal, Journal of The Electrochemical Society, Applied Surface Science, and ACS Catalysis. The most prolific publication venue is Corrosion Science, with 16 publications.

Best Publications

  • QUANTUM ESPRESSO: a modular and open-source software project for quantum simulations of materials

    Paolo Giannozzi;Stefano Baroni;Stefano Baroni;Nicola Bonini;Matteo Calandra

  • Quantum ESPRESSO: a modular and open-source software project for quantum simulations of materials

    P. Giannozzi;S. Baroni;N. Bonini;M. Calandra

  • Advanced capabilities for materials modelling with Quantum ESPRESSO.

    P. Giannozzi;O. Andreussi;O. Andreussi;T. Brumme;O. Bunau

  • Computer graphics and graphical user interfaces as tools in simulations of matter at the atomic scale

    Anton Kokalj;Anton Kokalj

  • XCrySDen--a new program for displaying crystalline structures and electron densities.

    Anton Kokalj

  • On the HSAB based estimate of charge transfer between adsorbates and metal surfaces

    Anton Kokalj

  • What Determines the Inhibition Effectiveness of ATA, BTAH, and BTAOH Corrosion Inhibitors on Copper?

    Anton Kokalj;Sebastijan Peljhan;Matjaž Finšgar;Ingrid Milošev

  • Is the analysis of molecular electronic structure of corrosion inhibitors sufficient to predict the trend of their inhibition performance

    Anton Kokalj

  • Beyond One-Electron Reaction in Li Cathode Materials: Designing Li2MnxFe1-xSiO4

    Anton Kokalj;Robert Dominko;Gregor Mali;Anton Meden

  • Analysis of molecular electronic structure of imidazole- and benzimidazole-based inhibitors: A simple recipe for qualitative estimation of chemical hardness

    Nataša Kovačević;Anton Kokalj

  • Corrosion inhibitors: physisorbed or chemisorbed?

    Anton Kokalj

  • Li2MnSiO4 as a potential Li-battery cathode material

    R. Dominko;M. Bele;A. Kokalj;M. Gaberscek

  • A comparative electrochemical and quantum chemical calculation study of BTAH and BTAOH as copper corrosion inhibitors in near neutral chloride solution

    Matjaž Finšgar;Antonija Lesar;Anton Kokalj;Ingrid Milošev

  • DFT Study of Interaction of Azoles with Cu(111) and Al(111) Surfaces: Role of Azole Nitrogen Atoms and Dipole–Dipole Interactions

    Nataša Kovačević;Anton Kokalj

  • Synergistic effect of 2-mercaptobenzimidazole and octylphosphonic acid as corrosion inhibitors for copper and aluminium – An electrochemical, XPS, FTIR and DFT study

    Dževad K. Kozlica;Anton Kokalj;Ingrid Milošev

  • Density functional theory study of ATA, BTAH, and BTAOH as copper corrosion inhibitors: adsorption onto Cu(111) from gas phase.

    Anton Kokalj;Sebastijan Peljhan

  • Chemistry of the interaction between azole type corrosion inhibitor molecules and metal surfaces

    Nataša Kovačević;Anton Kokalj

  • Simplistic correlations between molecular electronic properties and inhibition efficiencies: Do they really exist?

    Anton Kokalj;Matic Lozinšek;Barbara Kapun;Peyman Taheri

  • Molecular modeling of organic corrosion inhibitors: Calculations, pitfalls, and conceptualization of molecule–surface bonding

    Anton Kokalj

  • Ab initio modeling of the bonding of benzotriazole corrosion inhibitor to reduced and oxidized copper surfaces.

    Anton Kokalj

  • The roles of mercapto, benzene, and methyl groups in the corrosion inhibition of imidazoles on copper: II. Inhibitor–copper bonding

    Nataša Kovačević;Ingrid Milošev;Anton Kokalj

  • The roles of mercapto, benzene and methyl groups in the corrosion inhibition of imidazoles on copper: I. Experimental characterization

    Ingrid Milošev;Nataša Kovačević;Janez Kovač;Anton Kokalj

Frequent Co-Authors

Ingrid Milošev
Ingrid Milošev Jožef Stefan Institute
Ari P. Seitsonen
Ari P. Seitsonen PSL University
Michele Lazzeri
Michele Lazzeri Sorbonne University
Philippe Marcus
Philippe Marcus Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Nicola Marzari
Nicola Marzari École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Francesco Mauri
Francesco Mauri Sapienza University of Rome
Roberto Car
Roberto Car Princeton University
Dominique Costa
Dominique Costa Institut de Recherche de Chimie Paris
Alfredo Pasquarello
Alfredo Pasquarello École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Robert Dominko
Robert Dominko National Institute of Chemistry

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