Anticorrosion Coatings Based on Conjugated Polymers

ENEA-Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development, Technical Unit of Materials Technologies of Brindisi, 

Keywords Conjugated polymers, corrosion, corrosion protection, nanocomposite coatings 

Corrosion is a natural and costly process of destructions and, differently from other destructive phenomena such as earthquakes or volcanic eruptions, can be prevented or at least controlled. Several definitions of corrosion have been given (i) corrosion is the result of interactions between a metal and environment which results in its gradual destruction, (ii) corrosion is 

ParveenSaim(ed.)Fundamentais of Corrugated Polymer Blends, Copolymers and Composites, (519-580) 2015 Scrivener Publishing LLC 

Certainly, corrosion has effects on economy, depletes resources and causes costly and untimely failures of plants, equipment and components. In 2002, National Association of Corrosion Engineers (NACE) refers that the total annual estimated direct cost of corrosion in the U.S. was 276 billion—approximately 3.1% of the nations gross domestic product (GDP) [2]. The present valuation of the annual cost of corrosion worldwide from World Corrosion Organization is U.S. 2.2 trillion, which is over 3% of the world s GDP [3]. 

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Anticorrosion Coatings Based on Conjugated Polymers 553 Table 10.4 Classes for CPs nanocomposite coatings. 

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