Research report 2006 - Max Planck Institute for Sustainable Materials GmbH
Corrosion Protection by Conducting Polmers: Development of intelligent self-healing coatings
Authors
Rohwerder, Michael
Departments
Grenzflächenchemie und Oberflächentechnik (Prof. Stratmann) (Prof. Dr. Martin Stratmann)
MPI für Eisenforschung GmbH, Düsseldorf
Summary
As the active component within composite coatings conducting polymers have a great potential as effective and environmentally friendly corrosion pigments. However, this only works, if extended percolation networks of the conducting polymer are avoided in the coating.