Functional Coatings By Polymer Microencapsulation

Polymer microencapsulation technology originally came from pharmaceuticals as a means of coating precious compounds for better storage or for their journey through the human body to their destination, either as protection from adverse environments such as stomach acid, or to facilitate their entry into the cells of affected body regions due to tailor-made surface characteristics. This principle is now generating great interest in other branches of industry such as food, agriculture, automobiles and textiles, and microcapsules are finding new applications as decisive components in self-healing, optically active, high-strength, anti-bacterial and other novel types of functional coatings for all kinds of surfaces, materials and purposes.Ghosh, Swapan Kumar is the author of 'Functional Coatings By Polymer Microencapsulation', published 2006 under ISBN 9783527312962 and ISBN 352731296X.