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Nano Trends – A Journal of Nano Technology & Its Applications

Nanotechnology to Improve the Biofouling and Corrosion Performance of Marine Paints: From Lab Experiments to Real Tests in Sea

  1. George Kordas

Abstract

Nanocontainers of the type CuO, ZnO and CeMo were developed in the present work and incorporated into commercial paints. The nanocontainers were filled with bromosphaerol (CuO and ZnO), SeaNineTM 211 (CuO and ZnO), and 8Hydroxyquinoline (CeMo). The new resulting paints were tested in the lab and in the sea via painting a fraction of two ships. The outcome of this work is encouraging demonstrating that the new nanotechnology-based paints yield to superior commercial paints that may present a major milestone in the new generation of marine paints.
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