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Smart Multifunctional Coatings for Corrosion Detection and Treatment

  • 1st Edition - November 1, 2026
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Siva Tamilvanan, Ananthakumar Ramadoss, Kalim Deshmukh, Chaudhery Mustansar Hussain
  • Language: English

Smart Multifunctional Coatings for Corrosion Detection and Treatment investigates the impact smart multifunctional coatings in corrosion sensing, self-healing, superh… Read more

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Description

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.

Key features

  • Explains the corrosion inhibition mechanisms, fabrication methods, characterizations, properties, and applications of smart materials-based coatings
  • Considers the application of corrosion-inhibiting smart coatings in various emerging applications, including aerospace, automotive, defense, and construction
  • Explores current challenges and opportunities in the development and commercial application of corrosion-inhibiting smart coatings

Readership

Students, researchers, and industrialists working in the field of smart materials development and multiple coatings, specifically those dealing with anti-corrosion applications

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

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: November 1, 2026
  • Language: English

About the editors

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Siva Tamilvanan

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.
Affiliations and expertise
Postdoctoral Fellow, Advanced Research School for Technology & Product Simulation (ARSTPS), Central Institute of Petrochemical Engineering and Technology (CIPET), Chennai, India

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Ananthakumar Ramadoss

Ananthakumar Ramadoss is a Scientist at the Advanced Research School for Technology & Product Simulation (ARSTPS), Central Institute of Petrochemicals Engineering and Technology (CIPET), Chennai, India. He has over 15 years of research expertise in developing various nanostructured materials for applications in supercapacitors, nanogenerators, self-powered systems, 3D printing, thin films, corrosion protection, and bio-implants. He has over 100 research publications in peer-reviewed journals, >25 book chapters and edited 1 book with renowned international publishers. Also, he has received various awards (>15), prestigious fellowships (Humboldt Post-Doctoral Fellowship), and a Top 2% Scientist. In addition, he has completed and ongoing various sponsored projects in the respective areas.

Affiliations and expertise
Scientist, Advanced Research School for Technology & Product Simulation (ARSTPS), Central Institute of Petrochemicals Engineering and Technology (CIPET), Chennai, India

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Kalim Deshmukh

Kalim Deshmukh is a senior researcher at the New Technologies-Research Centre, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech Republic. 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.

Affiliations and expertise
Senior Researcher, New Technologies - Research Centre, University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic

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Chaudhery Mustansar Hussain

Prof. Chaudhery Mustansar Hussain, PhD, is an adjunct professor and director of laboratories in the Department of Chemistry & Environmental Sciences at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Newark, New Jersey, United States. His research focuses on sustainability, the applications of nanotechnology and advanced materials, environmental management, analytical chemistry and other various industries. Dr. Hussain is the author of numerous papers in peer-reviewed journals as well as a prolific author and editor of around 200 books, including scientific monographs and handbooks in his research areas. He has published with ELSEVIER, American Chemical Society, Royal Society of Chemistry, John Wiley & Sons, CRC Press, and Springer.

Affiliations and expertise
Adjunct Professor and Director of Chemistry & EVSC Labs, Department of Chemistry and Environmental Science, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Newark, NJ, USA