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A conducting polymer film acts as a self healing coating to protect metals from corrosion, say researchers in Japan.

Steel is used to construct many different structures but is susceptible to corrosion, which can limit its practical uses and lifetime. Structures such as bridges or boats are often exposed to salt solutions that rapidly corrode them. This is a large problem and costs related to corrosion in developed countries amounts to approximately four per cent of their gross national product.

Damian Kowalski and coworkers at Hokkaido University have developed a new type of coating using an intrinsically conducting polymer (ICP), polypyrrole, which could be used as an alternative to expensive and toxic chromates currently used.

Interested to know more? Read Jon Watson’s article in Highlights in Chemical Science for free here:

Original research article available here: Damian Kowalski, Mikito Ueda and Toshiaki Ohtsuka, J. Mater. Chem., 2010, 20, 7630 – 7633, DOI: 10.1039/c0jm00866d

There’s an interesting interview with Zhenan Bao in Highlights in Chemical Technology. Zhenan Bao is tipped to be one of the great innovators of the 21st century. Joanne Thomson finds out what inspires her to succeed.

You can also read Zhenan Bao’s recent review in Journal of Materials Chemistry on ‘Fused aromatic thienopyrazines: structure, properties and function’.

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