STTR Phase I: Next Generation Of Environmental-Friendly Marine Coating With Superior Durability And Antifouling Performance

该小型企业创新研究（SBIR）第一阶段项目的更广泛影响/商业潜力将是在目标环保海洋涂料市场中开发具有上级耐久性和耐腐蚀性能的涂料产品。这种创新的解决方案需要较少的应用频率，并减少了船舶船体和水体中静止物体上的水下生长量。潜在的经济效益包括提高燃料效率和节省船舶和静态海洋结构的维护费用。同时，该产品通过减少货船的温室气体排放和避免当前海洋涂料造成的潜在物种入侵，提供了巨大的环境效益。特别是，该产品是同类产品中第一个非杀菌剂的环保产品。它解决了全球法规强调的当前和未来需求，以环保解决方案取代现有的有害生物杀灭剂浸出涂层。这个小企业创新研究（SBIR）第一阶段项目旨在开发和商业化一种新型船舶涂料产品，以提供目前市场上缺乏的高性能环保解决方案。目前的自抛光涂料产品受到越来越多的监管限制，而替代的环境友好选项，如污垢释放涂料，则具有低的耐腐蚀性能。这种新型涂层技术有可能实现针对海洋应用的耐久性和高抗腐蚀性能，以及环保特性，而不会将杀生物剂沥滤到水环境中。本项目的目的是探索涂料配方中的关键制造因素，并确定其对涂料稳定性和耐候性能的影响。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project will be the development of a coating product with superior durability and antifouling performance in the targeted environmental-friendly marine coating market. This innovative solution requires a less frequent application and reduces the amount of subaquatic growth on the hull of ships and static objects in bodies of water. Potential economic benefits include improving fuel efficiency and saving the maintenance cost of ships and static marine structures. At the same time, this product provides enormous environmental benefits by reducing the greenhouse gas emission from cargo ships and avoiding the potential species invasion caused by current marine coatings. In particular, this product is the first non-biocide environmentally friendly product of its kind. It addresses the current and future needs highlighted by global regulations to replace the existing harmful biocide-leaching coatings with an eco-friendly solution.This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project aims to develop and commercialize a novel marine coating product to deliver a high-performing eco-friendly antifouling solution that is currently lacking in the marketplace. Current self-polishing coating products were subject to increasing regulatory restriction, while alternative environmental-friendly option such as fouling-release coating suffered low antifouling performance. This novel coating technology potentially achieves the durability and high antifouling performance for targeted marine applications, and the eco-friendly feature without leaching biocide into the aqueous environment. The objective of this project is to explore the key fabrication factors in coating formulation and identify their impacts on the coating stability and antifouling performance. Critical knowledge will be obtained enables the development of prototype product showing year-long reliability and top marine antifouling function.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.