Smart Coatings

Fundamentals, Developments, and Applications

Vaibhav Sanjay Kathavate, Pravin Pralhad Deshpande

• Editore: CRC Press
• Anno: 2022
• ISBN:
  9781000646320
• Edizione: 1
• Argomento: Scienze fisiche
• Categoria: Meccanica

This book focuses on fundamentals, technology, synthesis, and characterizations and applied techniques from a practical point of view of coatings. The first three chapters offer a rigorous review of the application of these coatings to corrosion protection in various aerospace and oil and gas industries, and the subsequent chapters present a quick critical review of the state-of-the-art protection techniques of these coatings to novel biomedical applications such as clinical translations and tissue-engineered materials. Environmental, ergonomics, and aesthetic aspects and future perspectives are also explained at the end.

Features:

• Explores the synthesis and application techniques of novel smart coatings in various research areas

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• Presents a concise, critical, and state-of-the-art review of existing research on various types of smart coatings

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• Ascertains the different mechanisms associated with the stimuli response of smart coatings

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• Includes an exclusive chapter on real-time applications in the biomedical field

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• Covers self-healing, self-cleaning, pH balance, early corrosion detection, and triggering mechanisms

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This book is aimed at researchers and graduate students specifically in smart coatings and thin films and corrosion, including chemical, materials science engineering, industrial and manufacturing engineering, and nanotechnology.