Review of Bionanocomposite Coating Films and Their Applications

Mhd Abd Cader Mhd Haniffa; Yern Chee Ching; Luqman Chuah Abdullah; Sin Chew Poh; Cheng Hock Chuah

doi:10.3390/polym8070246

Review of Bionanocomposite Coating Films and Their Applications

Polymers (Basel). 2016 Jun 29;8(7):246. doi: 10.3390/polym8070246.

Authors

Mhd Abd Cader Mhd Haniffa^{1

2}, Yern Chee Ching³, Luqman Chuah Abdullah^{4

5}, Sin Chew Poh⁶, Cheng Hock Chuah⁷

Affiliations

¹ Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur 50603, Malaysia. mmmhaniff@yahoo.com.sg.
² Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur 50603, Malaysia. mmmhaniff@yahoo.com.sg.
³ Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur 50603, Malaysia. chingyc@um.edu.my.
⁴ Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University Putra Malaysia, Serdang 43400, Malaysia. chuah@upm.edu.my.
⁵ Institute of Tropical Forestry and Forest Product (INTROP), University Putra Malaysia, Serdang 43400, Malaysia. chuah@upm.edu.my.
⁶ Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur 50603, Malaysia. pohsc@um.edu.my.
⁷ Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur 50603, Malaysia. chchuah@um.edu.my.

Abstract

The properties of a composite material depend on its constituent materials such as natural biopolymers or synthetic biodegradable polymers and inorganic or organic nanomaterials or nano-scale minerals. The significance of bio-based and synthetic polymers and their drawbacks on coating film application is currently being discussed in research papers and articles. Properties and applications vary for each novel synthetic bio-based material, and a number of such materials have been fabricated in recent years. This review provides an in-depth discussion on the properties and applications of biopolymer-based nanocomposite coating films. Recent works and articles are cited in this paper. These citations are ubiquitous in the development of novel bionanocomposites and their applications.

Keywords: biodegradable polymers; bionanocomposite; coating film; crosslink; nanomaterials.

Publication types

Review