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Polymer-Based Nanoscale Materials for Surface Coatings

  • 1st Edition - May 10, 2023
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Sabu Thomas, Jesiya Susan George
  • Language: English

Polymer-Based Nanoscale Materials for Surface Coatings presents the latest advances and emerging technologies in polymer-based nanomaterials for coatings, focusing on novel materi… Read more

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Description

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.

Key features

  • 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

Readership

Researchers, scientists, and advanced students, with an interest in coatings, surface preparation, nanomaterials, polymer science, and across materials science and engineering, Engineers and R&D professionals working on novel polymeric coatings for advanced applications

Table of contents

1 Introduction to coatings and surface preparation

2 Nanomaterials and nanocomposites for surface protection

3 Thermoplastic polymer-based nanocoatings

4 Thermoset polymer-based nanocoatings

5 Elastomeric nanocoatings

6 Theory, modeling, and simulation in nanoscale polymer coatings

7 Rheology of nanoscale polymer-based coatings

8 Spectroscopy characterizations of nanoscale polymer-based coatings

9 XPS and SIMS studies of nanoscale polymer-based coatings

10 Nanoscale surface coatings based on plant phenolics

11 Contact angle studies of nanoscale polymer based coatings

12 NDT studies of nanoscale polymeric coatings

13 Mechanical properties of nanoscale polymer coatings

14 Thermal properties of nanoscale polymer-based coatings

15 Diffusion and transport through nanoscale polymer-based coatings

16 Light scattering, X-ray scattering, and microscopy studies of nanoscale polymer-based coatings

17 Neutron scattering studies of nanoscale polymer-based coatings

18 Electrochemical characterizations of the anticorrosive nanoscale polymer-based coatings

19 Aging studies of nanoscale polymer-based coatings

20 Nanoscale polymer coatings for biomedical implants

21 Self-healing of nanoscale polymer-based coatings

22 Superhydrophobic nanoscale materials for surface coatings

23 Nanoscale polymer-based coatings for applications in marine antifouling

24 Corrosion resistant nanoscale polymer-based coatings

25 Photocatalytic nanoscale polymer-based coatings

26 Life cycle assessment of nanoscale polymer-based coatings

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: May 14, 2023
  • Language: English

About the editors

ST

Sabu Thomas

Sabu Thomas is a Professor and Director of the International and Interuniversity Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala, India. Professor Thomas 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.

Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, India; Department of Physics and Electronics, Christ University, Bangalore, India; Center of Excellence in Polymeric Materials for Medical Practice Devices, Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand; TrEST Research Park, Trivandrum, Kerala, India

JG

Jesiya Susan George

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.
Affiliations and expertise
Research Scholar, School of Chemical Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, India

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