Nanostructured Surfaces Displaying Superhydrophobic Properties

We have seen that failure of the coating can also be the result of water or electrolyte incorporation in the coatings. This can be considerably reduced when the surface repels water. Hydrophobic anions have therefore been incorporated into ECP coatings and have 

Direct fabrication of superhydrophobic coatings on metal surfaces has indeed brought new research trends to the corrosion problem. Two main approaches have been developed 

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Xu etal. reported a simple electrochemical process to fabricate superhydrophobic conducting polypyrrole films [188]. Interestingly, they demonstrated that reversible switchable 

The use of electronic conducting polymers for protection against corrosion is a topic which has considerably progressed in the last years. From the analysis of the published work it is obvious that much effort has been made to understand the protection mechanisms but, also, many new metal systems have been tested and, at this time, we consider that some results are very promising and already compare well with the prohibited chromating processes. 

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