Self-healing coatings

Samenvatting
Have you ever scratched the paint of your car? or the shiny cover of your mobile phone? Have you ever wished it would “disappear”, that is “self-heal”?
In Nature, animals and plants recover from damages through complex self-healing mechanisms triggered by external or internal-stimuli. In a similar way, the damage inflicted into the coatings that protect and decorate our materials, can be considerably reduced through the introduction of self-repairing mechanisms which can recover the chemical and/or physical properties of the material. This lecture will explain some of the most common self-healing principles investigated for coatings and show illustrative examples from academic research and industrial applications.

Curriculum Vitae Dr. A.C. de Carvalho Esteves

• Since December 2009, Assistant Professor at the Chemical Engineering and Chemistry Department of Eindhoven University of Technology.
• Worked for 3 years as Post-Doc researcher at the Materials and Interface Chemistry group, Eindhoven University of Technology in cooperation with Philips Lighting on the project: Polymer coatings for solid state lighting.
• PhD degree in Chemistry, University of Aveiro in 2007, Aveiro, Portugal.
• Graduate visiting researcher at University of Manchester (UK) at Prof. Phill Hodge Group in 2005 and at Carnegie Mellon University,
• Pittsburgh (USA), at Prof. Kris Matyjaszewski Group in 2004.
• Master degree in Materials Science and Engineering, University of Aveiro, Portugal in 2002.