New Materials as Protective Coatings for Different Substrates (Wood, Stone, Paper, and Textile): Synthesis, Characterization Techniques and Their Applications
A special issue of Coatings (ISSN 2079-6412). This special issue belongs to the section "Thin Films".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2025 | Viewed by 909
Special Issue Editor
Interests: synthesis; characterization and applying of nanomaterials; nanocomposites; metal complexes; gels and polymers for different purposes (water purification, solar cells, sensors, nano-cleaning, making thin films as protective coatings, and consolidation and restoration of wood and stone artifacts)
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The application of protective coatings for different substrates is an essential and common operation to protect them from several factors. For instance, the protection of our artefacts becomes a necessity due to several decay phenomena induced by pollution, microorganism colonization, photo-degradation, and water. The chemical decay occurring mainly in the presence of water is one of the most deteriorating factors, especially for porous materials (wood, paper, textile, and stone). Hence, the protection of an artefact’s surface has become a necessity in a lot of countries, because heritage sites or items are symbol of the country which provide intrinsic value to the country’s economy, apart from other important features such as being demonstrations of the cultural, historical, and remarkable accomplishments of humanity.
For protection purposes, numerous new materials and methods have been developed during the past decades. Toward this goal, we are assembling a Special Issue of Coatings which aims to encourage researchers and provide them with a platform to publish their novel studies, in particular, multi-functional protective coatings and sustainable protective coatings for different substrates.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Synthesis of new materials (new sustainable materials);
- Characterization of new materials;
- New tools for the characterization purposes;
- Investigation of the surfaces and substrates of artefacts and their decay processes;
- Case studies;
- Applying new materials (new coatings) as protective coatings and analytical techniques to characterize properties;
- Durability of new products.
I look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Maduka Lankani Weththimuni
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- new materials (new sustainable materials)
- characterization
- protective coatings
- case studies
- analytical techniques
- durability assessment
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