• DOI:10.1080/08927010903470815
Corpus ID: 35932563

Natural products as antifouling compounds: recent progress and future perspectives

@article{Qian2010NaturalPA,
  title={Natural products as antifouling compounds: recent progress and future perspectives},
  author={P. Qian and Ying Xu and Nobushino Fusetani},
  journal={Biofouling},
  year={2010},
  volume={26},
  pages={223 - 234}
}

P. Qian, Ying Xu, Nobushino Fusetani

Published 2010

Engineering, Medicine

Biofouling

Since early 2008, an increasing number of countries have ratified an international treaty to ban the application of antifouling (AF) coatings based on organotin compounds (eg tributyltin (TBT) and triphenyltin). As a result, the demand for environmentally friendly, non-toxic or low-toxicity AF compounds and technologies (green AF agents) has become an urgent reality. Marine coatings based on Cu2O and various other biocides have a negative impact on the environment and they must eventually be… CONTINUE READING

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