SUPER HYDROPHOBIC COATING TO

SAVE METALLIC SURFACES

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DEPARTMENT OF BIOTECHNOLOGY
NIVEDHA.A 192BT145

1.SUPER HYDROPHOBIC COATING:

The hydrophobic and superhydrophobic surface treatments developed to improve the performance
characteristics of virtually any component via its easy to apply nanoscale coatings, which can bond with a vast
range of classic or modern industrial materials, including complex metal alloys, new generation plastic
compounds, vitreous products and highly sensitive microelectronic silicon componentry hydrophobic coatings
are water repellent and this hydrophobicity renders treated surfaces extremely easy to clean as deposits and
residues left by water, dirt and even oil cannot stick to or smudge these surfaces. In fact, these coatings have the
double benefit of being oleophobic as well, so one pass of a clean cloth or absorbent paper is all you need to
clean a surface which has been treated with a product range of water resistant coatings .A superhydrophobic
coating is a thin surface layer that repels water. It is made from superhydrophobic materials. Droplets hitting
this kind of coating can fully rebound. Generally speaking, superhydrophobic coatings are made from
composite materials where one component provides the roughness and the other provides low surface energy

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MATERIAL USED AS A BASE FOR SUPER HYDROPHOBIC COATING:

* Manganese oxide polystyrene (MnO2/PS) nano-composite[citation needed]

*Zinc oxide polystyrene (ZnO/PS) nano-composite
*Precipitated calcium carbonate
*Carbon nano-tube structures
*Silica nano-coating[
*Fluorinated silanes and Fluoro polymer coatings
The silica-based coatings are perhaps the most cost effective to use. They are gel-based and can be easily
applied either by dipping the object into the gel or via aerosol spray. In contrast, the oxide polystyrene
composites are more durable than the gel-based coatings, however the process of applying the coating is much
more involved and costly. Carbon nano-tubes are also expensive and difficult to produce with current
technology. Thus, the silica-based gels remain the most economically viable option at present.

SUPER HYDROPHOBIC COATING TO SAVE METALLIC SURFACES:

Fascinated by the beauty of water rolling off a lotus leaf, a team of chemical engineers has now created a
similar superhydrophobic coating that can be used to save steel from rusting.The team from the Indian Institute
of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad, and Ohio State University used polyurethane and silicon
dioxide nanoparticles to create the coating which can be easily spin-coated on steel.“Not just steel, the coating
can be done on other metallic surfaces, such as aluminum, copper, brass. We have also successfully developed
superhydrophobic coatings for glass, cloth, paper and wood,” explains Aditya Kumar from IIT (ISM) Dhanbad
polyurethane and silicon dioxide nanoparticles, the coating can be easily sBefore applying the coating, the team
created a roughness on the steel using a chemical etching process to improve the adhesion strength. Without
this, the coating tends to easily peal off due to smoothness of steel.
The team also tried different methods for the application of the coat on steel and found that spin coating was
advantageous and cost-effective compared to immersion coating and spray coating. Spin coating dried quickly
and the thickness of the coat could be controlled easily.
The surface of the coating was found to have superhydrophobic property. The coating was also chemically
stable in both acidic (pH 5) and alkaline (pH 8) conditions for more than six weeks. It also exhibited thermal
stability up to 230 degree C.
The mechanical stability of the coating was tested with water jet, floating, bending, sand abrasion tests and was
found to be highly stable.

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Self-cleaning coating
Another useful property exhibited by the coating was of self-cleaning. When water droplets were made to fall
on an uncoated surface they stuck to it and made a messy surface.However, in the case of a coated sample,
water droplets roll away while collecting dust from the surface.

Easy to make
“The chemicals used to make the coating are easily available in our country and they are environmental friendly
too. When mass-produced on commercial scale, the cost of coating will further reduce,” Now the team is
working on developing an antimicrobial superhydrophobic coating for biomedical applications.

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