Recent developments and practical feasibility of polymer‐based antifouling coatings

AMC Maan, AH Hofman, WM de Vos… - Advanced functional …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
While nature has optimized its antifouling strategies over millions of years, synthetic
antifouling coatings have not yet reached technological maturity. For an antifouling coating …

Recent progress in marine foul-release polymeric nanocomposite coatings

MS Selim, MA Shenashen, SA El-Safty… - Progress in Materials …, 2017 - Elsevier
Progress in materials science is associated with the development of nanomaterials in terms
of energy-saving, environmentally friendly, and low-cost methods. Since the use of tributyltin …

Progress in biomimetic leverages for marine antifouling using nanocomposite coatings

MS Selim, SA El-Safty, MA Shenashen… - Journal of materials …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Because of the environmental and economic casualties of biofouling on maritime navigation,
modern studies have been devoted toward formulating advanced nanoscale composites in …

Facile design of graphene oxide-ZnO nanorod-based ternary nanocomposite as a superhydrophobic and corrosion-barrier coating

MS Selim, SA El-Safty, MA Abbas… - Colloids and Surfaces A …, 2021 - Elsevier
We reported a facile design of ternary nanocomposites of polydimethylsiloxane
(PDMS)/graphene oxide nanosheets decorated with ZnO nanorods (GO-ZnO NRs) as an …

A comparative study between two novel silicone/graphene-based nanostructured surfaces for maritime antifouling

MS Selim, NA Fatthallah, SA Higazy, Z Hao… - Journal of colloid and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Two novel superhydrophobic nanocomposite series of polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS)
enriched with reduced graphene oxide (RGO) and graphene oxide/boehmite nanorods (GO …

Silicone/graphene oxide sheet-alumina nanorod ternary composite for superhydrophobic antifouling coating

MS Selim, SA El-Safty, NA Fatthallah… - Progress in Organic …, 2018 - Elsevier
Superhydrophobic silicone fouling-release (FR) nanocomposite coatings have gained
considerable interest as an eco-friendly and economic solution to combat biofouling …

Bioinspired graphene oxide–magnetite nanocomposite coatings as protective superhydrophobic antifouling surfaces

MS Selim, NA Fatthallah, MA Shenashen, SA Higazy… - Langmuir, 2023 - ACS Publications
Antifouling (AF) nanocoatings made of polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) are more cost-efficient
and eco-friendly substitutes for the already outlawed tributyltin-based coatings. Here, a …

Superhydrophobic coating of silicone/β–MnO2 nanorod composite for marine antifouling

MS Selim, H Yang, SA El-Safty, NA Fatthallah… - Colloids and Surfaces A …, 2019 - Elsevier
A novel superhydrophobic series of silicone/β–MnO 2 nanorod composite was successfully
fabricated for marine fouling release (FR) coatings. We studied how the self-cleaning and …

Silicone/ZnO nanorod composite coating as a marine antifouling surface

MS Selim, H Yang, FQ Wang, NA Fatthallah… - Applied Surface …, 2019 - Elsevier
The effects of ZnO nanorod (NR) filler distribution and the nano-structured surface on the
superhydrophobicity and fouling-release (FR) of silicone nanocoatings were investigated …

Synthesis of ultrahydrophobic and thermally stable inorganic–organic nanocomposites for self-cleaning foul release coatings

MS Selim, MA Shenashen, A Elmarakbi… - Chemical engineering …, 2017 - Elsevier
A conformal novel and low-cost series of elastomeric high-molecular weight
polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS)/controlled SiO 2-doped ZnO nanocomposites were accurately …