Smart Composite Coatings and Membranes

*Smart Composite Coatings and Membranes: Transport, Structural, Environmental and Energy Applications* provides the latest information on the increase in demand for new smart materials for a wide array of different technological applications.

The book comprehensively reviews the latest developments in smart composite materials used as membranes, barriers, and coatings, with a special focus on corrosion protection, transportation, structure, and the wide range of applications.

Part one examines the properties, processing, and manufacture of smart composite materials, along with techniques for modeling the behavior of these materials, while other sections review the use of smart composite coatings in aerospace, marine, and metal structural applications, examine the protective properties and applications of smart composite coatings, and introduce specific low environmental impact and energy efficient applications, such as energy generation and storage, water management, and stone conservation.

Autorentext
Professor M. F. Montemor works at the Department of Chemical Engineering, Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal. She is co-author of more than 150 published scientific papers. Her research objectives focus on new surface functionalization strategies, the development and characterization of novel coatings for corrosion protection and improved durability of metallic substrates for application in the transportation sector, construction and energy production/storage. She is Editor of Applied Surface Science, and a member of the editorial boards of the journals Cement and Concrete Composites and Surface and Coatings Technology. Since January 2015 she has been the President of the European Federation of Corrosion.

Inhalt

Preface Part 1 Processing and characterization of smart composites 1 Properties of smart adaptive composite materials

2 Smart and composite inorganic coatings obtained by sputtering: a promising solution for numerous application fields

3 Modeling the behavior of smart composite materials Part 2 Smart Composite Coatings for Aerospace, Marine and Structural Applications 4 Smart composite coatings for corrosion protection of aluminium alloys in aerospace applications

5 Smart anti-biofouling composite coatings for naval applications

6 Smart corrosion protection by multi-action self-healing polymeric coatings 7 Hybrid nanocontainer-based smart self-healing composite coatings for the protection of metallic assets Part 3 Smart composite coatings for the protection of materials and other applications ** 8 Smart multiphase polymer coatings for the protection of materials

9 Smart anti-microbial composite coatings for textiles and plastics ** 10 Smart hydrophobic and soil repellent protective composite coatings for textiles and leather

11 New smart environmentally-friendly composite coatings for wood protection ** Part 4 Smart composite materials for environmental and energy applications**

12 Smart composite reverse-osmosis membranes for energy generation and water desalination processes

13 Smart multifunctional hybrid coatings with adjustable permeability for migration barriers