Three types of conventional surface coating, including epoxy coal tar pitch coating (ECTPC), cement-based capillary crystalline waterproofing coating (CCCWC), and cement-based bactericidal coating (CBC) were examined. Their performance of resisting sewage, water, acid, abrasion, and microbial erosion was investigated. Kong, Lijuan et al., Journal of Coatings Technology and Research, 2018, Vol. 15, Issue 6, pp. 1311-1323. Block copolymers of butyl acrylate and glycidyl methacrylate (GMA) having molecular weights 10,000 Da were synthesised with varied GMA block lengths by 10 %, 20 %, and 30 % using atom transfer radical polymerisation. The synthesised ...