Coatings — Journal Editorial Board

Editor-in-Chief
Istituto di Chimica dei Composti OrganoMetallici (ICCOM-CNR), Via Madonna del Piano 10, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Firenze, Italy
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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 cermets; simulation and modelling of complex electrochemical systems
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals Special Issue in Coatings: High Temperature Coatings
Special Issue in Coatings: Trends in Coatings and Surface Technology—Feature Papers
Special Issue in Coatings: Five Years of Coatings: Coatings Science and Technology for the 21st Century
Special Issue in Coatings: Surface and Interface Science and Engineering for the Society of the Future
Special Issue in Coatings: Selected Papers from the 1st Coatings and Interfaces Web Conference (CIWC-1)

Associate Editor
Department of Chemistry, Università di Firenze, Via della Lastruccia 3-13, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Firenze, Italy
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Interests: electrodeposition; energy; electrocatalysis; fuel cells
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals Special Issue in Coatings: Electrochemical Interfaces and Electrodeposition—In Honour of M. Luisa Foresti on the Occasion of Her Retirement
Special Issue in Molecules: Metal Nanocatalysts in Green Synthesis and Energy Applications
Special Issue in Coatings: Advances in Coatings Characterization
Special Issue in Catalysts: Platinum-Free Electrocatalysts
Special Issue in Coatings: Selected Papers from the 1st Coatings and Interfaces Web Conference (CIWC-1)

Former Editor-in-Chief
Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, c/o Dipartimento di Chimica, Polo Scientifico di Sesto Fiorentino, Università di Firenze, Via della Lastruccia 3-13, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Firenze, Italy
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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)
Founding Editor-in-Chief

Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals Special Issue in Coatings: High Temperature Coatings

Tribology Centre, Danish Technological Insitute, Kongsvang Allé 29, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
Tel. +45-7220-1589
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Interests: sputter deposition; Industrial-scale sputtering; PVD coatings; surface enginering; pulsed DC sputtering; HiPIMS; HPPMS; oxides; nitrides; carbides; DLC; tribology; ion-beam assisted deposition (IBAD); ion implantation; photocatalysis; X-ray diffraction (XRD, XRR, pole figures); electron microscopy (SEM, TEM); Rutherford backscattering; EDX
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Coatings: Physical Vapor Deposition

Division of Mechanical Engineering, Ashikaga University
Tel. +81-284-62-0605; Fax: +81-284-62-9802
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Interests: thermal spray technology; photocatalysis; CVD; diamond; nitriding, XRD
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Coatings: Thermal Spray Technology

University of Surrey, UK
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Interests: Use of advanced materials characterisation techniques to determine and understand the composition, bonding and nanostructure of thin films and coatings; Techniques employed include XPS, AES, XRD, TEM, SEM, AFM, FIB-SEM; Single layer, multilayer and nanocomposite inorganic thin films and coatings for wear/corrosion resistance or functional applications; Most thin films and coatings are deposited by vacuum methods, such as sputtering, evaporation or CVD
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Surfaces: Surface Analysis of Thin Films and Coatings

Department of Chemical Engineering, Materials, Environment - University of Rome "La Sapienza", Via Eudossiana 18, 00185 Rome, RM, Italy
Tel. +39‐06‐44585633
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Interests: surface engineering; thermal spray deposition of protective and functional coatings; thermal barrier coatings; wear resistant cermet coatings; coatings for harsh environments; corrosion
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Metals: Thermal Spraying of Metallic Coatings

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genoa, Italy
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Interests: bioinspired surfaces; wetting; biopolymers; polymer nanocomposites
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Nanomaterials: Engineering Bionanocomposites for Functional Applications
Special Issue in Polymers: Functional Polymer Coatings

Micro Materials Ltd., Willow House, Yale Business Village, Ellice Way, Wrexham LL13 7YL, UK
Tel. +44-1978-261615
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Interests: nanoindentation; nanoscratch; impact; elevated temperature nanoindentation; tool coatings; nitrides; DLC

Department of Chemical Engineering, School of Engineering, University of Bradford, West Yorkshire, BD7 1DP, UK
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Interests: coatings and surface engineering; fluid mechanics of coating flows; rheology of coating fluids; visualisation of coating flows; dynamic wetting; instabilities; nanocomposites

Laboratoire Matière et Systèmes Complexes, UMR 7057 Université Paris-Diderot/CNRS Batiment Condorcet, 10 rue Alice Domon et Léonie Duquet, F-75205 Paris Cedex 13, France
Tel. +33-1-57-27-61-47; Fax: +33-1-57-27-62-11
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Interests: biocompatible coating; multilayer coatings; polymeric and organic coatings; coatings in nanomedicine; particle and nanoparticle coatings

Department of Industrial and Mechanical Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 7491 Trondheim, Norway
Tel. +4748500574
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Interests: fatigue of advanced and traditional materials; fracture mechanics; solid mechanics; structural integrity; additive materials
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Metals: Fatigue Damage
Special Issue in Metals: Mechanical Behavior of High-Strength Low-Alloy Steels
Special Issue in Materials: The Brittle Failure of Different Materials
Special Issue in Metals: Fracture Behaviour of Innovative Materials under Different Enviromental Conditions
Special Issue in Applied Sciences: Mechanical Behaviour of Aluminium Alloys
Special Issue in Materials: Deformation, Fatigue and Fracture of Materials
Special Issue in Applied Sciences: Welding of Steels
Special Issue in Applied Sciences: Multiscale Fatigue Design
Special Issue in Applied Sciences: Recent Trends in Advanced High-Strength Steels
Special Issue in Applied Sciences: Structural Integrity of Aluminium Alloys
Special Issue in Metals: High-Strength Low-Alloy Steels
Special Issue in Metals: Fatigue and Fracture of Traditional and Advanced Structural Alloys
Special Issue in Applied Sciences: 10th Anniversary of Applied Sciences: Invited Papers in Mechanical Engineering Section

Department of wood and forest sciences, Laval University, Quebec City, QC G1V 0A6, Canada
Tel. +418-656-7954
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Interests: wood coatings; second wood processing; product development; wooden construction; durability of materials and buildings; eco conception; operationalization of sustainable development
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Forests: Wood Productions and Renewable Materials