Cox, Harrison J. and Cooper, Isaac and Kaspar, Heinrich F. and Packer, Michael A. and Badyal, Jas Pal S. (2022) 'Anti-biofouling functional surfaces for marine aquaculture.', Colloids and surfaces A: physicochemical and engineering aspects., 639 . p. 128313.
Abstract
Aquaculture is a global-scale industry providing sustainable production of protein-rich foods required to feed the growing world population. Microalgae cultivation in aquaculture bioreactors can exude extracellular polymeric substances leading to biofouling of culture infrastructure and increased algal disease risk. A structure–behaviour relationship was developed by examining how the surface wettability of a range of functional nanocoatings impacts the extent of biofouling during exposure to continuous microalgae culture under normal hydrodynamic conditions. High-wetting (hydrophilic) surfaces were found to reduce biofouling better than water-repelling (hydrophobic) surfaces. Low toxicity in conjunction with antifouling behaviour was found for pulsed plasma poly(4-vinylpyridine) coated bioreactor surfaces (water contact angle = 38 ± 5°) towards the marine microalgal species Chaetoceros calcitrans, Chaetoceros mulleri, and Tisochrysis lutea (T-Iso), which are commonly grown as aquaculture food.
Item Type: | Article |
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Full text: | Publisher-imposed embargo (AM) Accepted Manuscript Available under License - Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives 4.0. File format - PDF (1652Kb) |
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Status: | Peer-reviewed |
Publisher Web site: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.colsurfa.2022.128313 |
Publisher statement: | © 2022 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
Date accepted: | 12 January 2022 |
Date deposited: | 01 February 2022 |
Date of first online publication: | 24 January 2022 |
Date first made open access: | 17 August 2022 |
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