Smart Coatings

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Over the past 25 years coatings technologies have been influenced by the need to lower volatile organic contents (VOC) in order to comply with stricter environmental regulations as well as to reduce the use of costly petroleum based solvents. During this time the use of waterborne coatings in the architectural, industrial maintenance and original equipment manufacturing (OEM) sectors has continued to grow replacing solvent based coatings while meeting the ever decreasing VOC targets. In addition to waterborne coatings, other alternative technologies in the industrial and OEM sectors include powder coatings, uv-curable coatings and high solids coatings have had significant growth. Traditionally these coatings had the primary functions of protecting and decorating substrates. More recently, there has been growth in Research and Development and commercial product generation of coatings which have novel functions and sense and interact with their environment in addition to having the traditional protection and decoration functions. These coatings are often referred to as Smart Coatings. These types of coatings generally provide significant added value. Smart Coatings can be achieved in many ways such as by addition of additives and strategically designing polymer structures and coatings morphologies.

Preface Overview 1. Twenty-First Century Materials: Coatings That Interact with Their Environment, Robert F. Brady, Jr.Bioactive Coatings 2. Smart Coatings. Core-Shell Particles Containing Poly(n-Butyl Acrylate) Cores and Chitosan Shells as a Novel Durable Antibacterial Finish, Weijun Ye, Man Fai Leung, John Xin, Tsz Leung Kwong, Daniel Kam Len Lee, and Pei Li3. Formulation and Evaluation of Organic Antibacterial Coatings, D. L. Clemans, S. J. Rhoades, J. J. Kendzorski, Q. Xu, and J. Baghdachi4. Silicone Polymers with Biocide Grafting for Antifouling/Fouling Release Coatings: Effect of Modulus on Antifouling Performance, Johnson Thomas, Renae Fjeldheim, Seok-Bong Choi, and Philip Boudjouk5. Thermoset Siloxane-Urethane Fouling Release Coatings, Partha Majumdar, Abdullah Ekin, and Dean C. WebsterStimuli-Responsive Coatings 6. Smart Responsive Coatings from Mixed Polymer Brushes, Sergiy Minko7. Surface-Catalyzed Growth of Polymer Films That Respond to pH, Dongshun Bai, Brian M. Habersberger, and G. Kane Jennings8. Pressure Sensing Paints Based on Fluoroacrylic Polymers Doped with Phosphorescent Divalent Osmium Complexes, Brenden Carlson and Gregory D. PhelanNovel Coatings 9. Development of a Removable Conformal Coating through the Synthetic Incorporation of Diels-Alder Thermally Reversible Adducts into an Epoxy Resin, J. H. Aubert, D. R. Tallant, P. S. Sawyer, and M. J. Garcia10. Electroactive Polymer Coatings as Replacements for Chromate Conversion Coatings, P. Zarras, J. He, D. E. Tallman, N. Anderson, A. Guenthner, C. Webber, J. D. Stenger-Smith, J. M. Pentony, S. Hawkins, and L. Baldwin11. Oxidation Resistive Coatings at High Temperatures
for Iron Cores Charles A. Sizemore and Chhiu-Tsu LinIndexes Author Index Subject Index

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