ABSTRACT

Several different manufactured nanomaterials (MN) are already widely used in commercial protective surface coatings. Even the types of MN used in paints and lacquers may be exhaustive and this sector may be one of the largest industrial users of MN by volume. However, it is often difcult to know the exact composition of paints and lacquers and which MN might be applied therein. Experimental paints and lacquers have been made containing MN of, for example, silica (Carneiro et al. 2012), titania (Marolt et al. 2011), nanoclays/organoclays (Kowalczyk and Spychaj 2009), CuO and Ag (Ciof et al. 2005), and nanodiamond and nanoalumina (Sajjadi et al. 2013), as well as carbon nanobers and multiwalled carbon nanotubes (Il’darkhanova et al.