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Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Dr. Ugo Bardi
Dipartimento di Chimica, Universita di Firenze, Via della Lastruccia 3, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino (Fi), Italy
Tel. +39 55 457 3118; Fax: +39 55 457 3120
Website: http://www.unifi.it/unifi/surfchem/solid/bardi/
E-Mail: ugo.bardi@unifi.it
Interests: coatings and surface engineering; electrodeposition from ionic liquids, with a special view on aluminium coatings; thermal barriers manufacturing, testing, and characterization for the aerospace and energy production industry; scanning probe microscopy (SPM); electron microscopy (SEM, TEM); surface composition measurements; photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS); scanning auger microscopy (SAM); low energy ion scattering (LEIS)

Associate Editor
Dr. Alessandro Lavacchi
Istituto di Chimica dei Composti OrganoMetallici (ICCOM-CNR), Via Madonna del Piano 10, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Firenze, Italy
Tel. +39 55 5225239; Fax: +39 55 5225203
E-Mail: alessandro.lavacchi@iccom.cnr.it
Interests: electrodeposition of materials for renewable energy production; surface engineering; corrosion and corrosion protection; thermal barriers coatings; electron microscopy (SEM, TEM); X-ray techniques for surface structure and composition (XPS, XRF, XRD); electroless deposition of metals and cermet’s; simulation and modelling of complex electrochemical systems

Managing Editor
Ms. Lulu Wong
MDPI Haidian Office, Yingu Mansion, Suite 815, North 4th Ring Road West, 9, Haidian District, Beijing 100190, China
Tel. +86 10 6280 0830
E-Mail: lulu.wong@mdpi.com

Production Editor
Dr. Brietta Pike
MDPI AG, Postfach, CH-4005 Basel, Switzerland. Office: Kandererstrasse 25, 4057 Basel
Tel. +41 61 683 77 34; Fax: +41 61 302 89 18
E-Mail: pike@mdpi.com

Publisher
Dr. Shu-Kun Lin
MDPI AG, Postfach, CH-4005 Basel, Switzerland. Office: Kandererstrasse 25, 4057 Basel
Tel. +41 61 683 77 34; Fax: +41 61 302 89 18
Website: http://www.mdpi.org/lin/
E-Mail: lin@mdpi.com

Editorial Board

Prof. Dr. Christopher Berndt
IRIS, Faculty of Engineering and Industrial Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology, Mail H66, 543-545 Burwood Road, PO Box 218, Hawthorn, Victoria 3122, Australia
Tel. +61 3 9214 8706
Website: http://www.swin.edu.au/iris/staff/cberndt.html
E-Mail: cberndt@groupwise.swin.edu.au
Interests: thermal spray coatings; failure of coatings; biomedical ceramic materials; mechanical properties of materials; composites; corrosion
Contribution: Special Issue: Advanced Thermal Spray Coatings for Emerging Applications

Prof. Dr. Steve Bull
School of Chemical Engineering and Advanced Materials, Newcastle University, Merz Court, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK
Tel. +44 1912 22 7913; Fax: +44 1912 22 5292
Website: http://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/s.j.bull
E-Mail: s.j.bull@ncl.ac.uk
Interests: mechanical characterisation of thin coatings, nanoindentation, nanoscratch, impact and fracture studies; mechanical damage of submicron coatings for electronic and optical applications, performance and reliability of thin films for energy generation and storage; tribology of functional materials

Dr. James M. Fitz-Gerald
Department of Materials Science & Engineering, University of Virginia, PO Box 400745, 395 McCormick Road, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4745, USA
Tel. +1 434 243 8830; Fax: +1 434 982 5660
Website: http://www.virginia.edu/ms/faculty/fitz-gerald.html#publications
E-Mail: jmf8h@virginia.edu
Interests: processing, modeling, and behavior of nanofunctional; electronic materials and their novel contributions to the electronic and biomedical communities

Dr. Alessio Fossati
Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile e Ambientale, Via S. Marta 3, 50139, Firenze, Italy
Tel. +39 55 479 6399
E-Mail: alessio.fossati@gmail.com
Interests: corrosion and corrosion protection; thermal treatments; surface engineering; thermal barrier coatings; metals; tribology; microscopy (SEM, OM); X-ray techniques (EDX, XRD)

Prof. Dr. Steven M. George
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, University of Colorado, 215 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309-0215, USA
Tel. +1 303 492 3398; Fax: +1 303 492 5894
Website: http://www.colorado.edu/chemistry/GeorgeResearchGroup/
E-Mail: steven.george@colorado.edu
Interests: atomic layer deposition (ALD); molecular layer deposition (MLD); surface chemistry; growth and properties of thin films; nucleation of thin film growth; multilayers and nanolaminates; flexible films; various applications of ALD and MLD; gas diffusion barriers on polymers; nanostructure engineering and coating of nanoparticles

Dr. Gary Halada
Department of Materials Science & Engineering, 308 Engineering, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-2275, USA
Website: http://www.matscieng.sunysb.edu/faculty/halada.html
E-Mail: ghalada@notes.cc.sunysb.edu
Interests: functionalized nanoscale and nanostructured materials and surfaces; environment-surface interactions; environmental remediation; nuclear waste and decontamination methods; corrosion and degradation of materials; synchrotron-based X-ray and infrared spectroscopies; Raman and infrared molecular microspectroscopies; biomolecular and biomimetic materials and coatings; coatings for biomedical and environmental applications; engineering education and outreach

Dr. Christopher J. Kloxin
University of Delaware, Department of Materials Science and Engineering & Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, 150 Academy Street, Newark, DE 19716, USA
Tel. +1 302 831 8670; Fax: +1 302 831 1048
Website: http://www.che.udel.edu/research_groups/cjk/
E-Mail: cjk@udel.edu
Interests: photopolymerization; rheology; monomer and polymer synthesis; covalent adaptable networks; self-healing materials; and stimuli responsive polymers

Prof. Dr. Tayhas R. Palmore
Brown School of Engineering, Box D, 182 Hope Street, Providence, RI 02912, USA
Tel. +1 401 863 2856
Website: http://www.engin.brown.edu/people/Faculty/facultypage.php?id=1138722377
E-Mail: tayhas_palmore@brown.edu

Prof. Dr. Lech Pawlowski
University of Limoges, SPCTS, 12, rue Atlantis 87068 Limoges, France
Tel. +33 587 50 24 12
E-Mail: lech.pawlowski@unilim.fr
Interests: thermal spray technology of powders and suspension; nanometric coatings tecnology, in particular suspension plasma spray metal oxide coatings (hydroxyapatite, titania, zirconia); laser treatment of materials (laser heating, glazing and engraving); films technologies by laser ablation; characterization techniques by TEM, SEM, XRD, Raman microscopy
Contribution: Special Issue: Advanced Thermal Spray Coatings for Emerging Applications

Prof. Dr. Miriam Rafailovich
Materials Science & Engineering Department, Stony Brook University, Room 314 Old Engineering, Stony Brook, New York, 11794-2275, USA
Website: http://www.matscieng.sunysb.edu/faculty/rafailovich.html
E-Mail: mrafailovich@notes.cc.sunysb.edu
Interests: polymer coatings; nanocomposite coatings; biomaterials; cell surface interactions; X-ray/neutron reflectivity

Dr. Andrea Scrivani
Equipments and Technology, Turbocoating S.p.A., Via MistraliI 7, 43040 Rubbiano (Parma) - Italy
Tel. +39 0525 305817; Fax: +39 0525 305813
E-Mail: andreascrivani@turbocoating.it
Interests: coatings and surface engineering; thermal spray coatings, HVOF, APS, LPPS, VPS, CAPS, wire arc spraying, flame spray, electrodeposition from ionic liquids, thermal barriers manufacturing, testing, and characterization for the aerospace and energy production industry; surface treatments for gas turbine, SOFC, biomedical, oil and gas, automotive

Prof. Dr. Brian W. Sheldon
School of Engineering, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA
Tel. +1 401 863 2866
Website: http://www.engin.brown.edu/people/Faculty/facultypage.php?id=1106969978
E-Mail: brian_sheldon@brown.edu
Interests: formation and mechanical behavior of advanced ceramic materials, particularly thin films and coatings; electrode materials for Li ion batteries; nanocomposites; protective coatings; materials for MEMS; oxides for sensors and fuel cells

Dr. Alexander Tolstoguzov
Centre for Physics and Technological Research Physics Department, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal
E-Mail: a.tolstoguzov@fct.unl.pt
Interests: surface and microanalysis in material science and nanotechnology; coatings and surface engineering; secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS) including ToF-SIMS technique; field ion microscopy (FIM) and atom probe (AP); low-energy ion scattering (LEIS); in-depth profiling with ion-beam sputtering

Prof. Dr. Haydn N. Wadley
Department of Materials Science & Engineering, University of Virginia, PO Box 400745, 395 McCormick Road, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4745, USA
Tel. +1 434 982 5671; Fax: +1 434 982 5677
Website: http://www.virginia.edu/ms/faculty/wadley.html
E-Mail: haydn@virginia.edu
Interests: vapor deposition; thermal spray deposition; thermal barrier coatings; environmental barrier coatings

Prof. Dr. Giovanni Zangari
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Virginia, 395 McCormick Rd, P.O. Box 400745, Charlottesvile, VA 22904-4745, USA
Tel. +1 343 243 5474; Fax: +1 434 982 5799
Website: http://www.virginia.edu/ms/faculty/zangari.html
E-Mail: gz3e@virginia.edu
Interests: electrodeposition of alloys; magnetic films, micro- and nanostructures; materials for energy; electrochemical surface modification; electrochemical anodization and etching; nanoporous metals, oxides and semiconductors; self-assembled monolayers

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