Natural product antifoulants and coatings

Rittschof, D. Natural Product Antifoulants and Coatings Development in J.B. McClintock, B J. Baker (Eds.), Marine Chemical Ecology, CRC Press, Boca Raton FLA, 2001, 543-557... 

Rittschof D. (2001) Natural products antifoulants and coating development one perspective on the challenges related to coatings development, in Marine Chemical Ecdogy, Marine Science Series (eds J.B. McClmtock and B.J. Baker), CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, pp. 543-566. 

The result is that barnacles are often the first macrofoulers to colonize a protected surface.100 Once growth of barnacles on toxic metal coatings is initiated, the surface rapidly fails because barnacles act as nontoxic platforms for other organisms. As a result of these kinds of field evidence, the U.S. Navy supported basic barnacle research for almost four decades, and barnacles were the only macrofoulers included in initial studies of natural product antifoulants supported by the U.S. Navy. Most of this work was conducted by the Costlow group at the Duke University Marine Laboratory.47... 

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