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Fouling-release coating for aquaculture nets (CleaNet)

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Project code: keine Angabe
Contract period: 01.04.2018 - 31.03.2020
Budget: 342,000 Euro
Purpose of research: Applied research
Keywords: Aquaculture, coating, net, biofouling

Organisms like algae, mussels or barnacles rapidly colonise surfaces in maritime applications, such as ship hulls. The protective coatings primarily used to date contain substances like copper, which are harmful to the environment. The nets used in fish farming are also largely impregnated with copper-based coatings and release environmentally-toxic copper compounds into the water. A team at Kiel University (CAU) is researching environmentally-friendly polymer coatings to minimise fouling by marine organisms. In the project "CleaNet", together with a manufacturer of fishing nets, they aim to develop a coating material which is specially adapted to the specific requirements of nets in aquaculture.

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