Coatings Imparting Multifunctional Properties to Materials, 2nd Edition
A special issue of Coatings (ISSN 2079-6412). This special issue belongs to the section "Laser Coatings".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 December 2023) | Viewed by 1641
Special Issue Editor
Interests: chemical technology of fibrous materials; hydrophobic coating fabrics and the use of fluoropolymers and fluoroligomers
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We would like to invite you to submit your work to this Special Issue on “Coatings Imparting Multifunctional Properties to Materials” in Coatings. Coatings are traditionally employed to protect materials from corrosion and erosion, and to enhance the performance of equipment. Currently, there are coatings that provide materials with new properties, for example, biocidal, hydrophobic, self-cleaning, etc. A promising area of materials science is the development of “smart” coatings that can simultaneously impart materials with several new properties. The properties of the coatings are determined by the materials of the coatings, the structure and the properties of the substrate surface, and the methods used to form the coatings. In order to form multifunctional coatings, a variety of techniques are applied: the dip-coating technique, chemical deposition/electrodeposition, layer by layer assembly, spray coating, the spin coating technique, the electrospray/electrospinning coating technique, chemical etching technique, the lithographic patterning technique, and other miscellaneous techniques.
The aim of this Special Issue is to publish original research articles, critical reviews and perspectives from leading researchers in both academia and industry. We welcome the contribution of papers that relate to recent advances in the design, preparation and investigation of the structure, morphology, and properties of coatings that impart materials with multifunctional properties. Contributions that attend to novel concepts and mechanisms regarding the formation of coatings and their ability to impart materials with multifunctional properties are also very welcome.
In particular, the primary topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- new ways of forming multifunctional coatings, particularly by using high-energy effects;
- materials with new multifunctional coatings;
- novel methods for determining the characteristics of multifunctional coatings;
- the advanced industrial applications of coatings that impart materials with multifunctional properties.
Prof. Dr. N. P. Prorokova
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- antimicrobial properties
- hydrophobicity
- photocatalytic properties
- electrical conductivity
- multifunctional coatings
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