Description: Smart Anticorrosive Materials: Trends and Opportunities covers new developments in nanoscale coatings and their current applications. The book addresses fundamental characteristics, synthesis, inhibition mechanisms and applications of green nanomaterials for educational (academic) as well as industrial purposes and provides a chronological overview of the growth of the field. The book concludes with discussions about commercialization, economics and environmental considerations. This will be an indispensable reference for scholars, chemical engineers, chemists and materials scientists working in R&D and academia who want to understand corrosion systems and modern advancements on smart coatings.
Brief description: Vandana Srivastava is a Full Professor in the Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi-221005, India. Her research areas include Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Carbohydrate Chemistry, Immunochemistry and Tribology. She has attended various national and international conferences and seminars as an invited speaker. She has received various awards for her academic achievements and is also a member of editorial boards of several journals. She has successfully guided many PhD students.