Functional coatings

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Designing durable icephobic surfaces

Researchers have developed a durable, inexpensive coating that can create ice repelling on a variety of materials, such as windshields or ship hulls.

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Coatings technology: take a glimpse into the future

Conference for innovation managers and heads of R&D provides insights into the future of coatings technology from the innovators and mavericks who are at ...

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Recent development of self-healing surfaces with special wettability

Artificial special wetting surfaces have drawn much interest due to their important applications in many fields.

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De-icing concrete could improve roadway safety

A 200-square-foot slab of seemingly ordinary concrete sits just outside the Peter Kiewit Institute as snowflakes begin parachuting toward Omaha on a frigid ...

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An overview of today’s functional coatings

The focus topic of the January issue of the European Coatings Journal is functional coatings. In his technical paper Dr Jamil Baghdachi provides an overview ...

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Nanotechnology to improve surface properties of materials

Five technology centres have developed new coatings for plastics, wood, metal, ceramics and glass, which allow giving new properties to these traditional materials. ...

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The anti-icing tricks of penguins

A combination of nano-sized pores and the use of a special coating called preen oil makes Antarctic penguin feathers ultra-water-repelling, which keeps them...

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Instant omniphobic surfaces with unprecedented repellency

American researchers report a simple and straightforward method to prepare omniphobic surfaces that they believe to be as good or better than reported methods....

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Superhydrophilicity and durability of fluoropolymer titanium dioxide coatings

Self-cleaning fluoropolymer-TiO2 coatings have been in focus as a promising group of materials for a number of years due to their favourable combination of...

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Self-healing coatings and parts are next frontier for smart materials

Recent advances and ongoing improvements will help rapid and low-cost development of smart materials, and the next wave of innovation will be in self-healing ...

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Self-healing concrete slows down effects of deterioration

A new self-healing concrete aims to reduce the requirement for maintenance of structures over the long term by slowing down the effects of deterioration due ...

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New graphene based inks for high-speed manufacturing of printed electronics

A low-cost, high-speed method for printing graphene inks using a conventional roll-to-roll printing process, like that used to print newspapers and crisp packets,...