Quantum Convolutional Neural Networks (QCNNs) have emerged as one of the most promising architectures in Quantum Machine Learning (QML), enabling hierarchical quantum feature extraction and offering potential advantages over classical CNNs in expressivity and scalability. This study presents a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) on QCNN development from 2019 to 2025, covering theoretical foundations, model architectures, noise resilience, benchmark performance, and applications in materials informatics, chemistry, image recognition, quantum phase classification, and cybersecurity. The SLR followed PRISMA guidelines, screening 214 publications and selecting 47 primary studies. The review finds that QCNNs consistently outperform classical baselines in small-data and high-dimensional regimes due to quantum feature maps and entanglement-driven locality. Significant limitations include noise sensitivity, limited qubit availability, and a lack of standardized datasets for benchmarking. The novelty of this work lies in providing the first comprehensive synthesis of QCNN research across theory, simulations, and real-hardware deployment, offering a roadmap for research gaps and future directions. The findings confirm that QCNNs are strong candidates for NISQ-era applications, especially in physics-informed learning.

The purpose of this study is to use quantitative structure-property relationship (QSPR)-based machine learning (ML) to examine the corrosion inhibition capabilities of benzimidazole compounds. The primary difficulty in ML development is creating a model with a high degree of precision so that the predictions are correct and pertinent to the material's actual attributes. We assess the comparison between the extra trees regressor (EXT) as an ensemble model and the decision tree regressor (DT) as a basic model. It was discovered that the EXT model had better predictive performance in predicting the corrosion inhibition performance of benzimidazole compounds based on the coefficient of determination (R2) and root mean square error (RMSE) metrics compared DT model. This method provides a fresh viewpoint on the capacity of ML models to forecast potent corrosion inhibitors.