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Project

SIM-ICON: SHREC: Self-healing - repairing coatings (IWT631 (SIM1))

This project involves the development of thin self-healing coatings on plastics and steel substrates. The aim is to develop coatings that can heal micro- and macro-scratches, a different strategy being envisioned to heal the different damages. A selection of healing agents is to be tested and encapsulated for a range of commercial coating systems (thermal, UV, self-crosslinking), the choice of the healing agent being matrix dependent. The within NAPROM developed shape recovery coating (at demonstrator level) will be further developed (strategy for macro-scratches). A new element is the addition of polycaprolactone containing micro-capsules to the coating system with main objective to restore barrier properties. A typical coating thickness of 10-35 micrometer is envisioned, so this project targets small microcapsules (3-8 micrometer) in order to be compatible with the dimensions of typical coating.
Date:1 Nov 2012 →  31 Oct 2015
Keywords:material science, thermal analysis, chemistry, surface analysis, NMR, polymer science, engineering, electrochemistry
Disciplines:Physical sciences, (Bio)chemical engineering, Other engineering and technology, Materials engineering, Chemical sciences