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Chapter 14 Carbon allotropes-based materials as ideal substitutes for industrially useful selfhealing coatings: recent advancements and future proponents

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Carbon Allotropes
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Abstract

Self-healing (self-repairing) materials as outer surface (coatings) are gaining scientific and industrial interests due to their efficiency in detecting and self-healing surface deteriorations. This capability can improve the surface and tribological quality of service materials (mostly metals), specially towards surface-active chemical phenomena (corrosion). Synthetic carbon allotropes, such as, fullerenes, nanotubes, graphene, and the like, have the potential to participate in this application as a base-material or polymer matrix composite-reinforcement material for coatings. This ability is rooted in their high affinity for reaction with healing agents (polymers), environmental gases (carbon dioxide), humidity (water droplets and water aerosols), and by converting these solids/liquids/gases into a carbon-based material, which is able to reinforce and heal itself. The self-healing proficiency of these coatings depends on the polymer matrix modification, carbon allotropes functionality, carbon allotropes free surface area, carbon allotropes’ access to the surrounding atmosphere, availability of certain reacting elements, composite processing methods, and matrix-carbon nanofiller interaction/ compatibility. In the following chapter, special consideration is given to the self-healing efficiency of polymer-based carbon allotropes-reinforced nanocomposites in the technical field of metal anticorrosive coatings, and the related critical issues and challenges associated with self-healing nanocomposites with different sample systems. The role of these materials as electrolyte diffusion paths for self-healing / blocking agents and crack/pit filling materials are considered; the response sensitivity of these materials to outer external stimulus, as the main mechanism trigger, is reviewed; and some of the characterization techniques that can be used for offline and online evaluation of the healing efficiency of the proposed systems are discussed. Among the different systems, the environmentally-friendly self-healing anticorrosion coatings will be reviewed

Abstract

Self-healing (self-repairing) materials as outer surface (coatings) are gaining scientific and industrial interests due to their efficiency in detecting and self-healing surface deteriorations. This capability can improve the surface and tribological quality of service materials (mostly metals), specially towards surface-active chemical phenomena (corrosion). Synthetic carbon allotropes, such as, fullerenes, nanotubes, graphene, and the like, have the potential to participate in this application as a base-material or polymer matrix composite-reinforcement material for coatings. This ability is rooted in their high affinity for reaction with healing agents (polymers), environmental gases (carbon dioxide), humidity (water droplets and water aerosols), and by converting these solids/liquids/gases into a carbon-based material, which is able to reinforce and heal itself. The self-healing proficiency of these coatings depends on the polymer matrix modification, carbon allotropes functionality, carbon allotropes free surface area, carbon allotropes’ access to the surrounding atmosphere, availability of certain reacting elements, composite processing methods, and matrix-carbon nanofiller interaction/ compatibility. In the following chapter, special consideration is given to the self-healing efficiency of polymer-based carbon allotropes-reinforced nanocomposites in the technical field of metal anticorrosive coatings, and the related critical issues and challenges associated with self-healing nanocomposites with different sample systems. The role of these materials as electrolyte diffusion paths for self-healing / blocking agents and crack/pit filling materials are considered; the response sensitivity of these materials to outer external stimulus, as the main mechanism trigger, is reviewed; and some of the characterization techniques that can be used for offline and online evaluation of the healing efficiency of the proposed systems are discussed. Among the different systems, the environmentally-friendly self-healing anticorrosion coatings will be reviewed

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. About the editors V
  3. Preface VII
  4. Contents IX
  5. Chapter 1 Carbon allotropes: properties and applications – state of the art 1
  6. Chapter 2 Carbon allotropes: synthesis and characterization 33
  7. Chapter 3 Corrosion: basics, economic adverse effects, and its mitigation 67
  8. Chapter 4 Carbon allotropes for anticorrosive applications, challenges, and opportunities 89
  9. Chapter 5 Carbon allotropes: mechanism of corrosion prevention and control 117
  10. Chapter 6 Graphene and graphene oxide as nanostructured corrosion inhibitors 133
  11. Chapter 7 Chemically modified graphene and graphene oxides as corrosion inhibitors 149
  12. Chapter 8 Polymer composites of graphene and graphene oxides as corrosion inhibitors 175
  13. Chapter 9 Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and their composites as nanostructured corrosion inhibitors 201
  14. Chapter 10 Chemically modified CNTs as corrosion inhibitors 227
  15. Chapter 11 Carbon quantum dots (CQDS), carbon nanorods (CNRS), and their composites as nanostructured corrosion inhibitors 241
  16. Chapter 12 Recent advances in carbon allotropes nanostructured as anticorrosive coatings 271
  17. Chapter 13 Industrial corrosion inhibitors: nanostructured carbon allotropes as ideal substitutes 327
  18. Chapter 14 Carbon allotropes-based materials as ideal substitutes for industrially useful selfhealing coatings: recent advancements and future proponents 355
  19. Chapter 15 Economics and commercialization of carbon allotropes nanostructured corrosion inhibitors 383
  20. Authorlist 405
  21. Index 409
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110782820-014

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. About the editors V
  3. Preface VII
  4. Contents IX
  5. Chapter 1 Carbon allotropes: properties and applications – state of the art 1
  6. Chapter 2 Carbon allotropes: synthesis and characterization 33
  7. Chapter 3 Corrosion: basics, economic adverse effects, and its mitigation 67
  8. Chapter 4 Carbon allotropes for anticorrosive applications, challenges, and opportunities 89
  9. Chapter 5 Carbon allotropes: mechanism of corrosion prevention and control 117
  10. Chapter 6 Graphene and graphene oxide as nanostructured corrosion inhibitors 133
  11. Chapter 7 Chemically modified graphene and graphene oxides as corrosion inhibitors 149
  12. Chapter 8 Polymer composites of graphene and graphene oxides as corrosion inhibitors 175
  13. Chapter 9 Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and their composites as nanostructured corrosion inhibitors 201
  14. Chapter 10 Chemically modified CNTs as corrosion inhibitors 227
  15. Chapter 11 Carbon quantum dots (CQDS), carbon nanorods (CNRS), and their composites as nanostructured corrosion inhibitors 241
  16. Chapter 12 Recent advances in carbon allotropes nanostructured as anticorrosive coatings 271
  17. Chapter 13 Industrial corrosion inhibitors: nanostructured carbon allotropes as ideal substitutes 327
  18. Chapter 14 Carbon allotropes-based materials as ideal substitutes for industrially useful selfhealing coatings: recent advancements and future proponents 355
  19. Chapter 15 Economics and commercialization of carbon allotropes nanostructured corrosion inhibitors 383
  20. Authorlist 405
  21. Index 409
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