Polymer Material with Stable Non-Wetting Surface
- Detailed Technology Description
- This invention is a novel class of polymers with semifluorinated liquid crystalline side chains that maintain stable low-energy surfaces even when exposed to water for long periods.
- Others
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Patent: 6,750,296
- *Abstract
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Selected rights available.
Environmental concerns have led to increasingly strict regulatory restrictions on traditional anti-fouling coatings used to protect surfaces from harmful accumulation of biological materials (e.g. barnacles on ship hulls). This invention is a novel class of polymers with semifluorinated liquid crystalline side chains that maintain stable low-energy surfaces even when exposed to water for long periods. These polymers can be blended with a block copolymer elastomer to yield an environmentally-friendly coating material with both low surface energy and good adhesion. When this coating is applied to surfaces such as ship hulls, its low surface energy will inhibit the adhesion of biological material.
- *Licensing
- Martin Teschlmt439@cornell.edu(607) 254-4454
- Country/Region
- USA
