October 2018
Intermediate to advanced
600 pages
21h 10m
English
Marine biofouling generally refers to the undesirable accumulation of biological organisms on surfaces in contact with seawater. This natural phenomenon represents a major economic concern for marine industries, for example, for ships and vessels, oil and wind‐turbine sea platforms, pipelines, water valves, and filters, as it limits the performance of devices, materials, and underwater structures and raises the costs related to transport delays, hull maintenance and repair, need of cleaning, and desalination unit, corrosion, and structure breakdown.
In the last decades, many efforts have been spent into developing efficient anti‐fouling (AF) surfaces (coatings) combining advances in materials science and recent ...
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