(Michael Berger, Nanowerk) About a year ago Nanowerk reported on self-healing nanotechnology anticorrosion coatings, a novel method of multilayer anticorrosion protection including the surface pre-treatment by sonication and deposition of polyelectrolytes and inhibitors, developed by researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam, Germany. The main novelty of the proposed system was the multi-level protection approach, where the protective systems – the 'smart' multilayers – will not only be a barrier to external impacts, but also respond to changes in their internal structure, and combine in the same system different damage prevention and reparation mechanisms.

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Characterization of Surfaces session on Wednesday afternoon (under Functional Surfaces theme) features Dmitry Gorin from Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam, Germany.