Smart Multifunctional Coatings for Corrosion Detection and Treatment

by Siva Tamilvanan (Editor), Ananthakumar Ramadoss (Editor), Kalim Deshmukh (Editor), Chaudhery Mustansar Hussain PhD (Editor)

Overview

Smart Multifunctional Coatings for Corrosion Detection and Treatment investigates the impact smart multifunctional coatings in corrosion sensing, self-healing, superhydrophobic, anti-fouling, and self-cleaning applications. The book focuses on smart multifunctional materials, their special synthesis techniques, applications, and commercial challenges, and provides a comprehensive analysis of smart materials-based coatings, from the fundamentals to industrial-scale exploratory research. The book sets out the components and performance-governing parameters of multiple applications of smart coatings, identifying the challenges, trends and limitations involved in their implementation. It is ideal for advanced students and research scholars, as well as industry professionals working in sustainable coatings for various fields, including textiles and the automobile industry.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780443341434
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	03/01/2026
Series:	Woodhead Publishing Series in Electronic and Optical Materials
Pages:	600
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Siva Tamilvanan is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Advanced Research School for Technology & Product Simulation (ARSTPS), Central Institute of Petrochemical Engineering and Technology (CIPET), Chennai, India. His fields of specialization are corrosion control by intelligent coatings, conducting polymer-based coatings, corrosion inhibitors, and corrosion monitoring.

Ananthakumar Ramadoss is an assistant professor at the Advanced Research School for Technology & Product Simulation (ARSTPS), Central Institute of Petrochemical Engineering and Technology (CIPET), Chennai, India. His research interests mainly focus on developing nanostructured materials and their applications in supercapacitors, nanogenerators, self-powered systems, thin films, corrosion protection, and bio-implants.

Dr. Kalim Deshmukh is Senior Researcher at the New Technologies-Research Centre, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech Republic. He has over 20 years of research experience working with a wide variety of nanomaterials and polymeric materials, especially polymer blends, nanocomposites, and nanohybrids for various applications. His research interest is mainly focused on the synthesis, characterization, and property investigations of novel polymer nanocomposites reinforced with different nanofillers, including various nanomaterials including carbon-based materials such as carbon black, carbon nanotubes, graphene and its derivatives and MXenes for energy storage, energy harvesting, gas sensing, EMI shielding and high-k dielectric applications.

Chaudhery Mustansar Hussain is an Adjunct Professor and Director of Laboratories in the Department of Chemistry & Environmental Sciences at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), United States. His research focuses on nanotechnology and advanced materials applications, environmental management, analytical chemistry, and related industries. Dr. Hussain has authored numerous papers in peer-reviewed journals and is a prolific book author and editor, including scientific monographs and handbooks in his fields of expertise.

Table of Contents

Section I: Fundamentals of Smart Coatings
1. An Introduction and Basic Concepts of Smart Coatings
2. Materials and Fabrication Methods of Smart Coatings
3. Anticorrosion Mechanism and Environmental Conditions of Smart Coatings
4. Influencing Factors and Process Optimization of Smart Coatings
5. Analytical Tools for Monitoring Anticorrosive Smart Coatings

Section II: Materials Design of Smart Coatings
6. Intelligent Polymers and Polymer Composites for Smart Coatings
7. Micro and Nanocontainers Based Smart Coatings
8. Micro and Nanocapsules Based Smart Coatings
9. Intelligent Thin Layer Based Smart Coatings
10. Nature-Inspired Materials for Smart Coatings

Section III: Functional Types of Smart Coatings
11. Smart Superhydrophobic Coatings
12. Smart Self-Cleaning Coatings
13. Smart Self-Healing Coatings
14. Smart Anti-Fouling Coatings
15. Smart Triobological Coatings
16. Multifunctional Stimuli Responsive Smart Coatings

Section IV: Application of smart coatings
17. Smart Coatings in Aerospace and Automotive Applications
18. Smart Coatings in Defence Applications
19. Smart Coatings in Building Materials Application
20. Commercial Aspects, Challenges and Future Perspectives of Smart Coatings

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Thoroughly explores the mechanisms and effects of smart multifunctional coatings for metallic corrosion inhibition