Advanced Coatings**

Graphite Innovation and Technologies （GIT）是一家加拿大材料工程初创公司，致力于开发基于石墨烯的创新产品，包括石墨烯涂层（GrapheneCoatTM），这是一种具有抗生物污染性能的涂层，特别适用于船舶应用。GIT正寻求从三个方面促进其产品的使用：改进加工（提供更均匀和可复制的产品），特别是更好地分散和减少挥发性有机化合物（voc）；增加了对其涂层基本物理特性的了解（特别是对使用温度区域的限制）；探索新的配方，以扩大其用途到新的应用。**理工学院建议通过NSERC ENGAGE项目与新斯科舍省哈利法克斯达尔豪斯大学化学系Mary Anne White教授的研究小组合作。怀特教授和她的团队将利用他们在材料化学方面的专业知识和专门的实验室设备，探索新的加工方法，以提高这些性能，并对GIT配方进行准确的热性能和热稳定性测量。这些进步既可以改进现有产品，又可以实现新的应用。**在这项合作下进行的研究将特别有利于海洋工业，以及为各种应用寻求可靠的保护涂层的工业。预计这项研究将有助于GIT提供比现有产品更好、更耐用的廉价、环保和易于应用的涂料。********

Graphite Innovation and Technologies (GIT) is a Canadian materials engineering startup company that develops innovative graphene-based products including GrapheneCoatTM, a coating with anti-biofouling properties of particular use for marine applications. GIT is seeking to advance the use of their products in three ways: improved processing (giving a more homogeneous and reproducible product), especially better dispersion and reduction of the volatile organic compounds (VOCs); increased knowledge of the fundamental physical properties of their coatings (especially giving limits to the temperature region of use); explorations of new formulations to expand its uses to new applications.** GIT proposes collaboration with Professor Mary Anne White's research group at the Department of Chemistry at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, through the NSERC ENGAGE program. Professor White and her group will use their expertise in materials chemistry and their specialized laboratory equipment to explore new processing methods that could enhance these properties, and to carry out accurate thermal properties and thermal stability measurements of GIT formulations. These advances could both improve the present product and allow new applications. ** The research conducted under this collaboration would be specifically beneficial to the marine industry, and to industries seeking reliable protective coatings for various applications. It is anticipated that this research will help GIT to provide a wide range of inexpensive, environmentally friendly and easy-to-apply coatings that are better and more durable than existing products.********