Selected Papers from PCM 2017 (Coatings and Its Application)
A special issue of Coatings (ISSN 2079-6412).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 November 2017) | Viewed by 7659
Special Issue Editors
Interests: surface coating; corrosion prevention; nanocomposite coating; biomedical coatings; powder coatings; powder metallurgy
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The 2017 Global Conference on Polymer and Composite Materials (PCM2017) will be held in Guangzhou, China, May 23–25, 2017. This well-established conference series is dedicated to covering all theoretical and experimental aspects of polymers and composite materials. The conference offers you the possibility to publish your research in the Coatings journal. This Special Issue will focus on the emerging challenges for coatings of metals using different technique and types.
In particular, the topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Composite coatings
- Thin film
- Applied surface science
- Novel Biological Coatings
- Bio-medical coatings
- Conventional coatings
- Corrosion science
- Any other aspects of coatings
Prof. Dr. Esteban Broitman
Prof. Dr. Zeinab Abdel Hamid
Guest Editors
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