Nontoxic anti-fouling paint protects ships, ocean life. (Materials Progress: Surface Engineering).

Advanced Materials & Processes,  July, 2003  

Tags: Cornell University

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Paints that minimize adhesion by organisms and also enable ship hulls to become self cleaning have been designed by researchers at Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., with funding from the U.S. Office of Naval Research. The team, led by Prof. Christopher Ober, has developed two types of nontoxic paints that prevent fouling.

One is hydrophilic and the other hydrophobic. According to Dr. Ober, "Our ability to engineer surfaces has improved dramatically over the past ten years, and we have learned that not only do you have to control surface energy and surface ...

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