RESEARCH

Biofouling is about of how living organisms in water attach to wet-substrates at different length and time scales. Anti-fouling is the process of removing the accumulation, or preventing their accumulation. Biocides containing Tributyltin (TBT) and Cupper had been widely used as anti-fouling agent but the international maritime community has recognized serious side-effects of the biocides and forbidden use of them as an anti-fouling agent. Therefore, new environmentally friendly and economical anti-fouling strategies should be developed. Recently, many research groups in the world try to invent an anti-fouling materials via bio-mimicking.

We seek to understand the fundamentals of biofouling and antifouling phenomena in nature and try to find unrevealed insights to design novel anti-fouling agent via biomimetic approaches.

The insights is going to be utilized in Ocean Macroalgal Afforestation (OMA), developments in antifouling paints for ships, and developments in antifouling coating for membrane filtrations