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A Short Review of Laboratory and Field Testing of Environmentally Benign Antifouling Coatings

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Title A Short Review of Laboratory and Field Testing of Environmentally Benign Antifouling Coatings
 
Creator LIM, Chin Sing
LEE, Serina Siew Chen
LEONG, Wai
Xian, Ying NG
TEO, Serena Lay Ming
 
Subject Bioassays
Field testing
Antifouling
Coatings
Dynamic tests
 
Description 2067-2074
Unlike traditional biocide-based antifouling coatings, emerging
antifouling concepts combining environmentally benign materials and biomimetic
concepts may require new antifouling assay methods for evaluating activity
before the transition from lab to dynamic field test environment. As
a result, many new antifouling assays have been introduced in the past few
years, each designed to measure specific parameters. However, it is important
to keep in mind that emerging novel antifouling systems leverage on
synergism between more than one antifouling mechanisms of action. Thus, to
understand antifouling activity, it is necessary to evaluate them in different
laboratory and natural field environment conditions as polymers may behave
differently in static controlled environment and dynamic conditions of the
natural marine environment. For field tests, new ways to elucidate performance
in smaller scale experiments before transition to larger panel performance
tests are needed. In this paper, we discuss the emerging challenges for
antifouling testing for R&D.
 
Date 2016-06-30T05:09:38Z
2016-06-30T05:09:38Z
2014-11
 
Type Article
 
Identifier 0975-1033 (Online); 0379-5136 (Print)
http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/34576
 
Language en_US
 
Rights CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India
 
Publisher NISCAIR-CSIR, India
 
Source IJMS Vol.43(11) [November 2014]