SOL-GEL DERIVED COATING TO INHIBIT BIOFOULING AND CORROSION AT A SUBSTRATE

摘要

An anticorrosion and/or antibiofouling coating for a substrate. The coating comprises a corrosion inhibitor and/or a microorganism incorporated within the coating. The coating a sol-gel derived coating that may be formed from one or more ormosil compounds.

主权项

1. A substrate having a coating bonded to the substrate and configured to protect the substrate from corrosion and/or biofouling, the coating obtainable by a sol-gel process to create an inorganic oxide network resultant from condensation reactions of at least one inorganic oxide; the coating comprising:
a viable microorganism incorporated within the coating, the microorganism capable of reacting chemically with microbes responsible for microbial induced corrosion and/or biofouling and configured to inhibit the biological activity of said microbes; and a corrosion inhibitor configured to inhibit corrosion and/or biofouling at the substrate.