14. Self-healing coatings
Authors of the chapter: Mikhail Zheludkevich, Arjan Mol
Traditionally, protective organic coatings are applied to a wide
variety of metal (alloys) when used in practice under corrosive conditions.
Such applications may vary from offshore structures, bridges, aircraft,
automobiles to micro-electronics, process industry, windmills and
many more. The main function of these coatings is to form a physical
barrier to aggressive species present in the surrounding medium to
reach the coating-metal(oxide) interface. Such protection may hold
well in case of an intact coating. However, coating defects by mechanical
scratching, punctures or delamination are common to occur during manufacturing,
assembling or the service lifetime of products and structures. In
that case an active protection mechanism should kick in to limit the
corrosion...
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