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Interfacial Behavior of β-Lactoglobulin at a Stainless Steel Surface: An Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy Study

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Abstract

The electrochemical impedance spectroscopy technique was used to investigate the interfacial behavior of β-lactoglobulin at an austenitic stainless steel surface over the temperature range 299 to 343 K at an open circuit potential. The electrode/electrolyte interface and corresponding surface processes were successfully modeled by applying an equivalent-electrical-circuit approach. A charge-transfer resistance value was found to be very sensitive to the amount of adsorbed protein (surface concentration), thus indicating that the adsorption of the protein (i) was accompanied by the transfer of the charge, via chemisorption, and (ii) influenced the mechanism and kinetics of the corrosion reaction. This was also apparent from the large decrease in the corrosion activation energy (16 kJ mol−1) caused by the adsorption of the protein. Adsorption of β-lactoglobulin onto the stainless steel surface at an open circuit potential resulted in a unimodal isotherm at all the temperatures studied and the adsorption process was described with a Langmuir adsorption isotherm. From the calculated Gibbs free energies of adsorption it was confirmed that β-lactoglobulin molecules adsorb strongly onto the stainless steel surface. The enthalpy and entropy values indicated that the molecule partially unfolds at the surface upon adsorption. The adsorption process was found to be entirely governed by the change in entropy.

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