Battling Corrosion
5 October 2008, 15:53
Categories: coatings smart-materials-smt
The current issue of Materials Today focuses on how thin films, coatings, and nanovessels can provide corrosion protection and even heal materials. Corrosion-resistant metallic coatings reports on U.S. researchers investigating the possibility of a tunable amorphous alloy that acts as a local corrosion barrier, and can also supply soluble ions which act as corrosion inhibitors. Smart self-repairing protective coatings reviews smart coatings that are being developed at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, in Germany. The self-healing coating consists of nanocontainers that can quickly release active coatings in response to changes in a coating’s environment or integrity. Even more interesting is the use of several nanocontainers at once, all having different active agents, incorporated in the same matrix. Each one will target a different problem and will be triggered by a different stimulus.
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