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Non-toxic antifouling strategies

30 April 2010
Chelsea M. Magin, Scott P. Cooper, Anthony B. Brennan

The term fouling generally refers to an undesirable process in which a surface becomes encrusted with material from the surrounding environment.

Antifouling, in this review, refers to all systems that prevent an organism from attaching to a surface. Historically, the term antifouling was associated only with biocidal compounds. Current antifouling strategies focus on green, non-toxic technologies. Fouling-release describes the force required to remove an organism that is already attached to a surface. These two terms have been used interchangeably in the literature; however they are truly different phenomena.

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