Advances in Antimicrobial Coatings II
A special issue of Coatings (ISSN 2079-6412). This special issue belongs to the section "Bioactive Coatings and Biointerfaces".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 May 2022) | Viewed by 3303
Special Issue Editor
Interests: catalytic materials; environmental remediation; emergent pollutants; antimicrobials; green new-deal
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Dear Colleagues,
After the seminal report by T. Matsunaga et al. in 1985, a large number of studies appeared devoted to the issue of microbial abatement in TiO2 suspensions. Many other materials were used to reduce microbes in suspensions thereafter. Due to the cost and labor needed to remove the used materials from the suspension after microbial inactivation, the approach was to fix/support the antibacterial agent on different substrates. During the last decade, the attention was drawn towards the design, synthesis, and characterization of efficient antimicrobial coatings. The latter are of potential use in many industries, such as in medical devices, food packaging, water treatment, ceramics, paints, and many other items in different fields.
We invite authors to contribute original research articles, as well as review articles, that seek to address the mechanisms and significance of antimicrobial coated surfaces for safer environments. A particular interest will be given to papers exploring innovative materials and surfaces engineering.
In particular, the topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Recent advances in antimicrobial surfaces
- Antimicrobial photocatalytic coatings
- Surfaces engineering for indoor environment
- Antimicrobial coated polymers
- New generation of antimicrobial coated ceramics
- Light enhanced dyes degradation on surfaces
- Water treatment on coated reactors
Dr. Sami Rtimi
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- coatings
- materials
- microbial abatement
- environment
- characterization
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