Conducting Thermosetting Polymers for Composite Coatings

用于复合涂料的导电热固性聚合物

• 批准号: 538351-2019
• 负责人: Freund, Michael
• 金额: $ 1.82万
• 依托单位: Dalhousie University
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Engage Grants Program
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2019-01-01 至 2020-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=680388
• 关键词: Conducting; Thermosetting; Polymers; Composite; Coatings

This Engage grant will initiate a collaboration between Elcora Advanced Materials (Halifax, Nova Scotia) and Dr. Michael Freund (Chemistry, Dalhousie University). Elcora is a producer of high-quality carbon materials - specifically graphite and graphene - and has identified anticorrosion coatings as an important future application for their materials. The global anti-corrosion coating market is expected to reach $26,627 million by 2022 and with the recent emergence of graphene as an attractive replacement to current coatings that contain toxic compounds, Elcora is ideally positioned to develop new, made in Canada, coatings and significantly expand their customer base. However, with limited experience in coatings and limited opportunity to develop new intellectual property to generate products, Elcora is unable to enter the market. Dr. Freund's group has over two decades of experience in the field of material and polymer science including the synthesis and characterization of anticorrosion coatings. His group has developed new thermosetting conjugated polymers that can be combined with nano-platelet graphite and graphene produced by Elcora Advanced Materials to generate new, high-performance coatings with anticorrosion properties. Elcora engineers and researchers in Dr. Freund's group develop formulations and coating methods that will generate a new product line for Elcora Advanced Materials. Characterization of the films in Dr. Freund's group will provide performance metrics required to market the new coating for various industries.

这项参与赠款将启动 Elcora Advanced Materials（新斯科舍省哈利法克斯）和 Michael Freund 博士（达尔豪斯大学化学系）之间的合作。 Elcora 是优质碳材料（特别是石墨和石墨烯）的生产商，并已将防腐涂层视为其材料未来的重要应用。 到 2022 年，全球防腐涂料市场预计将达到 266.27 亿美元，随着石墨烯最近的出现，成为当前含有有毒化合物的涂料的有吸引力的替代品，Elcora 处于开发加拿大制造的新型涂料并大幅扩展业务的理想位置。他们的客户群。 然而，由于涂料方面的经验有限，而且开发新知识产权来生产产品的机会也有限，Elcora 无法进入该市场。 Freund 博士的团队在材料和聚合物科学领域拥有二十多年的经验，包括防腐涂层的合成和表征。 他的团队开发了新型热固性共轭聚合物，可以与 Elcora Advanced Materials 生产的纳米片状石墨和石墨烯结合，生成具有防腐性能的新型高性能涂层。 Freund 博士团队的 Elcora 工程师和研究人员开发配方和涂层方法，为 Elcora 先进材料打造新的产品线。 弗罗因德博士小组对薄膜的表征将提供向各个行业推销新涂层所需的性能指标。