{"title":"Study of surface hardness and self-healing ability of DA modified polyurethane coating","authors":"Babloo Roy Gautam, Nazrul Islam Khan","doi":"10.1016/j.nxmate.2025.100955","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In this work, a self-healable polyurethane coating has been developed with the help of the Diels-Alder cycloaddition reaction mechanism. This coating powder was prepared by adding DA-based healing agents in hydroxyl-functionalized polyester resin and uretdione crosslinker and applied on a well-prepared steel substrate using the electrostatic spray method. Two samples were prepared with 5 wt% and 10 wt% of healing agents with respect to the polyester resin. DSC test was performed to confirm the DA and retro-DA reaction. A depth-sensing nano-indentation test was carried out to check the hardness of the coating, and the surface roughness of the film was analysed by surface profilometer and FESEM analysis of the coated surface. The healing characteristics of these prepared samples were analysed by a scratch healing test and compared with coating without a healing agent. The hardness of the film was improved by ∼3 % and 12 % with the addition of 5 wt% and 10 wt% healing agent, respectively. Surface roughness of the coating was improved by the addition of a healing agent. Coating with 5 wt% and 10 wt% healing agent shows maximum healing efficiency of ∼85.6 % and ∼93.6 % at 120 °C within 30 min, respectively. DA-based polyurethane coating has the potential to improve the life cycle of the coating.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100958,"journal":{"name":"Next Materials","volume":"9 ","pages":"Article 100955"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2025-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Next Materials","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2949822825004733","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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In this work, a self-healable polyurethane coating has been developed with the help of the Diels-Alder cycloaddition reaction mechanism. This coating powder was prepared by adding DA-based healing agents in hydroxyl-functionalized polyester resin and uretdione crosslinker and applied on a well-prepared steel substrate using the electrostatic spray method. Two samples were prepared with 5 wt% and 10 wt% of healing agents with respect to the polyester resin. DSC test was performed to confirm the DA and retro-DA reaction. A depth-sensing nano-indentation test was carried out to check the hardness of the coating, and the surface roughness of the film was analysed by surface profilometer and FESEM analysis of the coated surface. The healing characteristics of these prepared samples were analysed by a scratch healing test and compared with coating without a healing agent. The hardness of the film was improved by ∼3 % and 12 % with the addition of 5 wt% and 10 wt% healing agent, respectively. Surface roughness of the coating was improved by the addition of a healing agent. Coating with 5 wt% and 10 wt% healing agent shows maximum healing efficiency of ∼85.6 % and ∼93.6 % at 120 °C within 30 min, respectively. DA-based polyurethane coating has the potential to improve the life cycle of the coating.