Ultra-Low Biofouling Materials and Coatings
A special issue of Coatings (ISSN 2079-6412).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2018) | Viewed by 233
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The scope of this Special Issue is on antifouling coatings designed to prevent or weaken interfacial adhesion between microbes and the coating, kill organisms attempting to adhere to the coating, or a combination of these mechanisms. Of particular interest will be the development of coating interfacial surface chemistry and nanotopography to prevent biofouling of the coating surface. The development of the next generation of antifouling coatings designed to resist biological adhesion and colonisation is of vital important to fields as diverse as healthcare, energy efficient building materials, potable water production and transport, and the goods transport industries. Research into innovative coating technologies designed to resist fouling by organics and microbial organisms is currently focused on investigating a suite of coating properties, including surface nano- and micro-topography, surface charge, surface chemistry, the release of antimicrobial agents as well as electroactive processes. In particular, the ability to control the coating interfacial physicochemical properties to dissuade biofouling has attracted significant attention due to their capacity to be used in a large variety of applications, including sensitive applications in the food production and biomedical fields.
In particular, the topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Fundamentals and new concepts on ultra-low biofouling surface chemistries
Novel nanostructured materials as coatings and coating additives
Advancement in coating deposition technologies to improve coating antifouling performance
The self assembly of chemistries and/or nanomaterials to fabricate antifouling thin films and coatings
Advancements in understanding interfacial interactions between antifouling surfaces and microbial organisms
Dr. Paul Molino
Guest Editor
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