Overview of Coatings for Advanced Applications

Abstract

This American Chemical Society book will provide a detailed overview of the many advances in coatings technology over the past decade. The book New Developments in Coatings Technology is based on the Fall National American Chemical Society Meeting symposium held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August, 22-26, 2004. The book will cover such diverse topics as electroactive polymers (EAPs), meta-rich primers and organofunctional silanes for replacements of hexavalent chromium (CrVI) based pretreatments and primers. Anti-fouling and foul release coatings are discussed in this volume. Laboratory methods are examined in this section to evaluate the best performing anti-fouling and foul release coatings. Specialty coatings with an emphasis on sensing based applications and environmentally benign coatings are also presented. The final section of this book will examine recent developments in monitoring a coating's performance. Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) and calorimetry methods are a select few of the techniques that will be discussed in this volume. This book will give the reader a sense of the many varied applications that coatings can be used for as well as the methods needed to evaluate them.