The Development and Utilization of Ecofriendly and High-Performance Materials in the Marine Environment

With the increasing exploration and utilization of marine resources worldwide, the demand for high-performance marine materials continues to grow. While, increasingly strict restrictions on carbon emission, climate change, and increasing care about marine biodiversity raise the requirement for materials used in the ocean. The study of marine materials is crucial for advancing marine science and technology, ensuring the safety and reliability of marine engineering structures, improving efficiency, reducing CO₂ emission, and protecting the marine ecological environment. To solve the challenges of the marine engineering, this article comprehensively reviews the current research progress of various types of marine materials, including the composite structural materials, the surface strengthen materials, and the intelligent materials, with a particular focus on the development of high-performance, environmentally friendly, and sustainable aspect of materials. This review provides meaningful attempts of the new marine material development to meet the requirements of era background, it is hoped that researchers in this field can grab the latest achievements and get some inspiration to design better marine materials.