Smart Self-healing Eco-friendly Nano and Nano-compozite Protective Coatings

Abstract

This paper reports our achievements in designing high performance eco-friendly coatings technologies for light-weight materials through international collaborations with USA, Italy, France, Romania, UK and Germany Aluminum and its alloys are used widely in aerospace, automotive and packaging applications. The demand for weight savings for automotive and aerospace materials has focused attention on magnesium alloys. Several automobile manufacturers (Ford, GM, Chrysler, Volkswagen, Opel, FIAT) have co-operated to develop new magnesium alloys for manufacturing less energy-consuming and hence, less polluted automobiles. Because of its growing use in the transportation industry, the world demand and production of magnesium have been growing steadily. Magnesium alloys have a variety of excellent properties. However, Mg alloys remain very susceptible to corrosion despite their superior mechanical properties.