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.

We introduce the Tree Tensor Network-enhanced Quantum-Classical Neural Network (TTN-QNet), a hybrid architecture that leverages the hierarchical structure of Tree Tensor Networks for efficient parameter representation and Variational Quantum Circuits (VQC) for expressive modeling. Unlike Tensor Ring Networks, TTNs reduce parameter redundancy through a tree-based topology, enabling scalable and interpretable computation. The proposed TTN-QNet is evaluated on the Iris, MNIST, and CIFAR-10 datasets, achieving classification accuracies of 93.2%, 85.24%, and 81.67%, respectively, on binary classification tasks. TTN-QNet demonstrates rapid convergence and robustness against barren plateaus, offering a promising direction for deep quantum learning.

Corrosion in materials is a significant concern for the industrial and academic fields because corrosion causes enormous losses in various fields such as the economy, environment, society, industry, security, safety, and others. Currently, material damage control using organic compounds has become a popular field of study. Pyridine and quinoline stand out as corrosion inhibitors among a myriad of organic compounds because they are non-toxic, inexpensive, and effective in a variety of corrosive environments. Experimental investigations in developing various candidate potential inhibitor compounds are time and resource-intensive. In this work, we use a quantitative structure-property relationship (QSPR)-based machine learning (ML) approach to investigate support vector machine (SVR), random forest (RF), and k-nearest neighbors (KNN) algorithms as predictive models of inhibition performance. (Inhibition efficiency) corrosion of pyridine-quinoline derivative compounds as corrosion inhibitors on iron. We found that the RF model showed the best predictive ability based on the coefficient of determination (R2) and root mean squared error (RMSE) metrics. Overall, our study provides new insights regarding the ML model in predicting corrosion inhibition on iron surfaces.