Polymer-Based Nanoscale Materials for Surface Coatings

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Polymer-Based Nanoscale Materials for Surface Coatings presents the latest advances and emerging technologies in polymer-based nanomaterials for coatings, focusing on novel materials, characterization techniques, and cutting-edge applications. Sections present the fundamentals of surface preparation and nanocoatings, linking materials and properties, explaining the correlation between morphology, surface phenomena, and surface protection mechanism, and covering theory, modeling and simulation. Other presented topics cover characterization methods, with an emphasis on the latest developments in techniques and approaches. Aging and lifecycle assessment of coated surfaces and coatings are also discussed.Final sections explore advanced applications across a range of fields, including intelligent coatings for biomedical implants, self-healing coatings, syper-hydrophobicity, electroluminescence, sustainable edible coatings, marine antifouling, corrosion resistance, and photocatalytic coatings. - Explains the fundamentals of coatings and surface protection, mechanisms, materials and properties, and modeling and simulation - Presents detailed information on the latest characterization techniques to prepare nanoscale polymer coatings with enhanced properties - Explores a broad range of state-of-the-art applications and considers aging and lifecycle assessments of coatings

About the author

Sabu Thomas is a Professor and Director of the International and Interuniversity Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Mahatma Gandhi University, India. He is internationally recognized for his contributions to polymer science and engineering, with his research interests encompassing polymer nanocomposites, elastomers, polymer blends, interpenetrating polymer networks, polymer membranes, green composites, nanocomposites, nanomedicine, and green nanotechnology. His groundbreaking inventions in polymer nanocomposites, polymer blends, green bionanotechnology, and nano-biomedical sciences have significantly advanced the development of new materials for the automotive, space, housing, and biomedical fields.

Ms. Jesiya Susan George is research scholar at School of Chemical Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi University. She completed her masters in biopolymer science from Cochin University of Science and technology. She received prestigious DST INSPIRE fellowship, Gov. of India. Her research interest involves anticorrosive coatings, epoxy resin, hybrid nanostructures and polymer blends. She published several articles in high-impact journals. She has two edited books to her credit.

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