Marine Antifouling Coatings Based on Durable Bottlebrush Polymers.

We report a next-generation, biocide-free, and durable marine antifouling coating technology. To achieve this, we combined two different polymers previously developed by us. First, we synthesized well-defined 2-hydroxypropyl acrylamide (HPA) based bottlebrush polymers with concentrated polymer brush (CPB) structures, which exhibit excellent bioinertness, and second, we synthesized photoreactive copolymers of 2-hydroxypropyl acrylamide (HPA) and -benzophenone acrylamide (BPA), which can be cross-linked by exposure to sunlight for 30 min.