Nanomaterials and Nanotechnologies for Marine and Membrane Antifouling Applications

The major responsibility of the marine industry includes global transportation goods, materials, and people. To cater longstanding challenges like degradation materials biofouling, it has embraced nanotechnology solutions. Nano-technology offered numerous products such as nano-ZnO, nano alumina, silica, etc. to deal with corrosion in a cost-effective manner. Similarly, address biofouling aquatic environment, hybrid nanocomposites organic-inorganic photocatalytic nanomaterials, metal oxide nanomaterials (nanoparticles, nanowires, nanorods), are employed viable agents create non-toxic or low-toxic antifouling coatings. On other hand, membrane separation technology plays significant role various industries including water treatment plants, food, medicine, pharmacy, biotechnology, addition domestic arena for purification drinking water. Such wonderful is being totally disturbed by troublesome problem predominant barrier called fouling, which drastically limits commercialization membranes whole industrial well. Hence, this review exclusively throws light on nanotechnologies developed prevention fouling that occurs submerged structures well give possible solutions increased resilience against come.