Simultaneous realization of superior mechanical and antifouling properties is critical for a coating. The use stereoscopic polysiloxanes in place linear to fabricate coatings can combine organic inorganic materials, i.e., they exhibit both high hardness wear resistance from components as well the flexibility tunability components. This strategy used prepare hard yet flexible or polymer-ceramic ...

Relying on a cost-effective and green process that is technically economically feasible large scale not enough to call technology “sustainable”. We thus evaluate the sustainability of production new “AquaSun” antifouling sol–gel coating with reference each three main dimensions (economic, social, environmental) sustainable development. This study will hopefully assist in overcoming “not invente...

Composition polysiloxane based coatings are currently the only viable commercial alternative of the toxic biocide containing antifouling paints. Oil incorporation improves the foul-releasing ability of the polysiloxane coatings. The impact of non-reactive, different molecular mass, both siloxane and fluorinated oil on the biofilm formation onto developed by us polysiloxane composition coating i...

• Carbon nanotube (CNT) membranes for next generation water desalination • Tip-functionalized nonpolar CNT-interior facilitates water influx and rejects salts. • These robust, antibacterial and antifouling CNT-membranes removemost pollutants. ⁎ Corresponding author. Tel.: +60 3 7967 6959; fax: + E-mail address: [email protected] (M.E. Ali). 0011-9164/$ – see front matter © 2013 Elsevier B.V. A...

We describe the formation of amphiphilic polymeric assemblies via a three-step functionalization process applied to polypropylene (PP) nonwovens and to reference hydrophobic self-assembled n-octadecyltrichlorosilane (ODTS) monolayer surfaces. In the first step, denatured proteins (lysozyme or fibrinogen) are adsorbed onto the hydrophobic PP or the ODTS surfaces, followed by cross-linking with g...

Tributyltin pollution from antifouling paint is well known to disrupt the endocrine system in female marine gastropods. The masculinization of females, including the aberrant growth of a penis and vas deferens and occlusion of the capsule gland, has been reported primarily in neogastropods and is particularly well documented in muricids. Compared to temperate areas, few studies of imposex have ...