The success of a wide range of commercial products and industrial processes depends on meeting specific flow requirements. Industrial applied rheology attempts to relate fundamental properties to fitness-for-use of fluids of commerce. Architectural and industrial coatings, molded plastics, adhesives, personal care products and cosmetics, inks, cement, drilling muds, ceramic slips, solder pastes...

Sol-gel technique has been utilized for the fabrication of multifunctional inorganic-organic hybrid materials for specific applications. Synthesized methacrylic acid and benzoylacetone modified tin alkoxide precursors were used for the first time for the realization of directly UV-photopatternable antimony-doped tin dioxide coatings. These single-layered coatings have transmission values over 8...

Diamond-like carbon (DLC) is a promising protective coating for future optical storage technologies. The requirements place conflicting constraints on the nature of the DLC. It must be transparent at 400 nm, hard and wear-resistant, uniform, pinhole-free, have a low stress and be deposited at high rate without a high heat load on a plastic substrate. In order to optimise the films under these c...

Biocorrosion has been considered as big trouble in many industries and marine environments due to causing of great economic loss. The main disadvantages of present approaches to prevent corrosion include being limited by environmental factors, being expensive, inapplicable to field, and sometimes inefficient. Studies show that polymer coatings with anticorrosion and antimicrobial properties hav...

This paper aims to synthesize and characterize an effective intumescent fire protective coating that incorporates eggshell powder as a novel biofiller. The performances of thermal stability, char formation, fire propagation, water resistance, and adhesion strength of coatings have been evaluated. A few intumescent flame-retardant coatings based on these three ecofriendly fire retardant additive...

One of the most effective corrosion control techniques is the electrical isolation of the anode from the cathode [1, 2]. The chromium oxide (Cr2O3) passivation layer formed on the surface of stainless steel in oxidizing environments is one example. This is the main reason for the durability and corrosion resistance behavior of this particular metal [2, 3]. A more generic approach to enhance cor...

Low-temperature self-healing capabilities are essential for self-healing materials exposed to cold environments. Although low-temperature self-healing concepts have been proposed, there has been no report of a microcapsule-type low-temperature self-healing system wherein the healing ability was demonstrated at low temperature. In this work, low-temperature self-healing of a microcapsule-type pr...

Due to their unique biodegradability, magnesium alloys have been recognized as suitable metallic implant materials for degradable bone implants and bioresorbable cardiovascular stents. However, the extremely high degradation rate of magnesium alloys in physiological environment has restricted its practical application. This paper reports the use of a novel microwave assisted coating technology ...