Marine biofouling has negatively affected human sailing since ancient times. Traditional
antifouling coatings were banned worldwide in 2003 due to their toxicity towards nontarget …

Marine biofouling has brought a serious impact on human marine production and
transportation activities. Applying antifouling coatings is an effective method to prevent …

Substituting natural products for traditional poison-killing antifouling agents is an efficient
and promising method to alleviate the increasingly serious ecological crisis and aggravate …

The development of environmentally friendly and highly efficient antifouling coatings is
vastly desirable in the marine industry. Herein, we prepared a novel amphiphilic block …

Combining amphiphilic fouling-release (FR) coatings with the surface-active nature of
amphiphilic additives can improve the antifouling/fouling-release (AF/FR) properties needed …

The aim of the current research study is to conduct a comparative assessment of
biocompatibility of zwitterionic-coated polyether sulfone (PES) clinical hemodialysis (HD) …

A novel copolymer architecture integrating anti-fouling, bactericidal, and fouling-release
functions has been developed for thin-film composite (TFC) membranes to effectively …

The development of nontoxic antifouling coatings in static marine environments is urgent.
Herein, the successful synthesis of sulfobetaine borneol fluorinated polymers (PEASBF) by a …

Recent advances in nanotechnology have allowed the encapsulation of hazardous
antifouling (AF) biocides in silica mesoporous nanocapsules (SiNC) reducing their short …

Amphiphilic polymer systems have been demonstrated to be an effective and
environmentally friendly approach to combat the challenges of biofouling, especially in the …