What to read after Polymer-Based Nanoscale Materials for Surface Coatings?

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