Coatings on glass and other substrates

Polymeric and other nanomaterial based coatings for glass substrate and likely on other materials to enhance the self-cleaning properties by the hydrophobic nature of coatings, antimicrobial, antireflective, anti-icing, thermoset anti fogging etc. the synthesis of coating material and methods to fabricate on substrate.Polymeric materials are of keen interest in coating and paint industry. Transparent, protective and hydrophobic polymeric materials to coat glass substrates have been developed by free radical polymerization and applied by simple cost-effective dip coating method on glass slides rather than CVD, PVD and spin coating method. Protective and Self-cleaning coatings have received a great deal of attention lately, both in research and in commercial applications. The advantages of self-cleaning coatings range from reducing maintenance costs and protection from environmental pollution. In this regard hydrophobic surfaces are very important for their self-cleaning property because of water droplets rolling nature along with dirt particles.