Antifouling Surfaces and Materials

This book reviews the development of antifouling surfaces and materials for both land and marine environments, with an emphasis on marine anti biofouling. It explains the differences and intrinsic relationship between antifouling in land and marine environments, which are based on superhydrophobicity and superhydrophilicity respectively. It covers various topics including biomimetic antifouling and self-cleaning surfaces, grafted polymer brushes and micro/nanostructure surfaces with antifouling properties, as well as marine anti biofouling. Marine anti biofouling includes both historical biocidal compounds (tributyltin, copper and zinc) and current green, non-toxic antifouling strategies. This book is intended for those readers who are interested in grasping the fundamentals and applications of antifouling.

Feng Zhou is a professor at the State Key Laboratory of Solid Lubrication, Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Author Biography

Dr. Feng Zhou is a full Professor at Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Deputy Director of State Key Laboratory of Solid Lubrication. He received his PhD in 2004 and subsequently spent three years (2005-2008) at the Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge as a Research Associate. He has published more than 200 journal papers with more than 6000 citations and his current H-index is 44. His research interests include the surfaces/interfaces of soft matters, drag-reduction and anti biofouling, as well as biolubrication. He has received a number of awards including Young Scholar Award in Tribology from Chinese Engineering Institute (2009), Distinguished Young Scholars from National Science Foundation of China (2011); Outstanding Young Chemist Prize of Chinese Chemical Society (2011) and Outstanding Youth Award from International Society of Bionic Engineering (2013).