Polymeric Fiber based Composite Coatings

Abstract

Abstract: Environmental friendly products are becoming popular and acceptable in industries due to the global limitation to the amount of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) released into the atmosphere. Low VOC compounds and technologies are also becoming a choice in the coatings and paint industry. Coatings can be made from water or solvent. In coatings from water, we use water as the solvent, therefore coating called waterbased coating and in the case of solvent-borne coatings, we used organic or inorganic compounds as solvents, therefore this coating called as solvent borne coating. Among all different types of solvents water is the greatest choice among these low VOC technologies for usage as a solvent to manufacture chemical compounds and Paints and coatings. because water is often recognized as a low-cost, safe, non-toxic, easily availabl sand ecologically friendly solvent. Also nanomaterials is new field in research and development of material science field. Materials can be one dimensional such as small paricles, materilas can be two dimensional such as fibers. Therefore in two-dimensional materials such as fibers ( micro and nanofibers) use in many different applications such as medical, composites, aerospace, Bulding constructions etc. Nanofiber has the advantage of high surface area to volume ratio hence to decrease the coating defects. micro and nanofibers should be incorporated inside the coating matrix. This way one can improve the properties of waterbased coatings. Hence low VOC solvent water with high surface area fiber is becoming a trend in composite coating and nanotechnology in fibers. This review provides information on Composite coatings, distinct fibers used in coatings and their applications, effects of different sizes of fibers such as micro and nanofibers on coatings