Smart Coatings: Fundamentals, Developments, and Applications

This book focuses on fundamentals, technology, synthesis, and characterizations and applied techniques from a practical point of view of coatings. The first three chapters offer a rigorous review of the application of these coatings to corrosion protection in various aerospace and oil and gas industries, and the subsequent chapters present a quick critical review of the state-of-the-art protection techniques of these coatings to novel biomedical applications such as clinical translations and tissue-engineered materials. Environmental, ergonomics, and aesthetic aspects and future perspectives are also explained at the end. Features: Explores the synthesis and application techniques of novel smart coatings in various research areas Presents a concise, critical, and state-of-the-art review of existing research on various types of smart coatings Ascertains the different mechanisms associated with the stimuli response of smart coatings Includes an exclusive chapter on real-time applications in the biomedical field Covers self-healing, self-cleaning, pH balance, early corrosion detection, and triggering mechanisms This book is aimed at researchers and graduate students specifically in smart coatings and thin films and corrosion, including chemical, materials science engineering, industrial and manufacturing engineering, and nanotechnology.

1. Smart Coatings: Science and Technology - From Fundamentals to Advances2. Smart Coatings for Corrosion Protection3. Smart Protective Coatings: Automobile, Aerospace, and Defence Applications4. Smart Coatings: Real-Time Applications in Bioimplant Materials5. Challenges in Clinical Translations6. Surface Functionalization by Smart Switchable Coating: Applications to Marine and Medical Sectors7. Smart Coatings: Environmental Aspects and Future Perspectives