Liquid-impregnated surface coatings have untapped potential because they can be applied to a wide variety of industries to advance sustainability by reducing waste, increasing product yields, improving production efficiency, providing consistent dosage and enabling product innovation.
Tomorrow’s paints and coatings can be much more than a pretty surface. Many of them will be smart, functional materials that respond to, and change, the environments around them.
It is possible to remove traditional inhibitors and incorporate smart pigment materials to give the same, if not a better, level of corrosion control in coatings.
In their continual search for high value-added opportunities, one of the most attractive prospects over the next decade will be so-called smart coatings that is coatings that respond “intelligently” to various mechanical, electrical, thermal and optical stimuli.
Advanced Polymerics Inc., Salem, New Hampshire, a provider of smart coatings and functional materials for the industrial marketplace, has hired Stephen Jewitt as Technical Director.
Industry analyst firm n-tech Research is hosting a webinar on Wednesday, February 10, 2016, to share findings from the firm’s recently released report, Multifunctional Smart Coatings and Surfaces: 2016-2025.
