title: Self-Healing Anticorrosion Coatings Based on pH-Sensitive Polyelectrolyte/Inhibitor Sandwichlike Nanostructures.
abstract: An anticorrosion layer of a smart polymer coating is developed. The nature and properties of the coating simultaneously provide three mechanisms of corrosion protection: passivation of the metal degradation by controlled release of an inhibitor, buffering of pH changes at the corrosive area by polyelectrolyte layers, and self-curing of the film defects due to the mobility of the polyelectrolyte constituents in the layer-by-layer assembly.
authors.affiliation: Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces Am Mühlenberg 1, Golm/Potsdam, 14476 (Germany). daria.andreeva@mpikg.mpg.de.
authors.forename: Daria V
authors.initials: DV
authors.lastname: Andreeva
authors.forename: Dmitri
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Fix
authors.forename: Helmuth
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Möhwald
authors.forename: Dmitry G
authors.initials: DG
authors.lastname: Shchukin
keywords: coatings; layer-by-layer assembly; polymeric materials; self-healing materials