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Intelligent Coatings for Self-Healing and Corrosion Control
Title: Principal Investigator
Phone: (540) 552-5128
Email: keena@lunainnovations.com
Title: Director of Contracts
Phone: (540) 552-5128
Email: vogtw@lunainnovations.com
The bulk of current military coatings are expensive, contain volatile organics, and are labor intensive to apply. Much of these costs are associated with the scraping and repainting of metal materials (20% of the $10 billion in estimated Army corrosion-related costs). There is a tremendous need to develop intelligent coatings that can perform numerous functions above those historically demanded of coatings. Luna is addressing this need to enhance the service life of steel structures by developing an intelligent coating that will respond to a damage event to the coating and release (1) film-formers to heal the wound, (2) corrosion inhibitors to provide additional corrosion prevention to the site, and (3) passive indicators to mark the coating damage zone to alert maintenance personnel. In this Phase I SBIR, Luna will combine our recent successes in corrosion prevention, water-borne resin development, and specialty coating formulations chemistry using microcapsules to design a unique coating system that has the potential to meet multiple damage challenges to the same location.
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