PMID- 36379045 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE LR - 20221130 IS - 1944-8252 (Electronic) IS - 1944-8244 (Linking) VI - 14 IP - 47 DP - 2022 Nov 30 TI - Designing Smart Microcapsules with Natural Polyelectrolytes to Improve Self-Healing Performance for Water-Based Polyurethane Coatings. PG - 53370-53379 LID - 10.1021/acsami.2c18339 [doi] AB - Active anticorrosive organic coatings adopting microcapsules (MCs) have lately attracted extensive attention as they were proven to be effective to minimize metal corrosions and offer a long-lasting protection performance. Herein, a novel environmental-friendly active corrosion protection system was designed for aluminum alloy 2024 (AA2024) based on water-based polyurethane coatings with the addition of water and alkaline pH-responsive smart MCs, which is fabricated by utilizing 2-mercaptobenzothiazole (2-MBT) as an inhibitor, halloysite clay nanotubes (HNTs) as an inhibitor carrier, and the natural polyelectrolytes epsilon-poly-l-lysine (epsilon-PLL) and sodium alginate (SA) as layer-by-layer (LBL) encapsulation polyelectrolytes. Salt spray tests and electrochemical measurements prove that the scratched coatings with embedded MCs possess an excellent self-healing performance by forming an adsorption layer of released 2-MBT on the AA2024 surface, thereby providing over 90% inhibition efficiency within 6 days' immersion. The UV-vis spectrophotometer results further showed that the release of 2-MBT is a three-stage long-term process sensitive to water and alkaline pH value, while the outward release rate is both regulated by the solubility of 2-MBT and the SA layer. The fabricated MCs not only offer a great promise to provide an excellent self-healing performance but also shed light on the future design of advanced MCs on demand based on the LBL technique. FAU - Li, Bowen AU - Li B AD - Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wencui Road 62, Shenyang110016, China. AD - School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Wenhua Road 72, Shenyang110016, China. FAU - Njuko, Demian AU - Njuko D AD - Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wencui Road 62, Shenyang110016, China. FAU - Meng, Meijiang AU - Meng M AD - Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wencui Road 62, Shenyang110016, China. FAU - Tang, Ao AU - Tang A AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-1126-3469 AD - Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wencui Road 62, Shenyang110016, China. FAU - Li, Ying AU - Li Y AD - Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wencui Road 62, Shenyang110016, China. AD - Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science, Northeastern University, No. 3-11 Wenhua Road, Shenyang110819, China. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20221115 PL - United States TA - ACS Appl Mater Interfaces JT - ACS applied materials & interfaces JID - 101504991 SB - IM OTO - NOTNLM OT - halloysite clay nanotubes OT - pH sensitive OT - smart microcapsule OT - sodium alginate OT - water-based polyurethane coating OT - epsilon-poly-l-lysine EDAT- 2022/11/16 06:00 MHDA- 2022/11/16 06:01 CRDT- 2022/11/15 17:13 PHST- 2022/11/16 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2022/11/16 06:01 [medline] PHST- 2022/11/15 17:13 [entrez] AID - 10.1021/acsami.2c18339 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - ACS Appl Mater Interfaces. 2022 Nov 30;14(47):53370-53379. doi: 10.1021/acsami.2c18339. Epub 2022 Nov 15.