Design, Coating and Modification of Eco-Friendly Materials for Environmental Pollution Remediation and Control

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to invite original research articles and critical reviews for this Special Issue of Coatings entitled “Design, Coating and Modification of Eco-Friendly Materials for Environmental Pollution Remediation and Control”. Growing environmental challenges demand multifunctional surface technologies that combine sustainable chemistry, scalable processing and long-term durability. This Special Issue will highlight how advanced coating and surface-modification strategies—whether green-synthesized films, bio-based barriers, or functional nanocomposite layers—can be purposely designed to capture, degrade or repel contaminants in air, water and soil systems. We welcome contributions that bridge materials innovation with real-world environmental engineering, from laboratory-scale synthesis to field-scale demonstration.

  Topics of particular interest include (but are not limited to):

• Bio-based, recyclable or biodegradable coatings for pollutant adsorption or degradation. 
• Green-synthetic routes (sol–gel, electrospray, layer-by-layer, plasma polymerization, etc.) for environmental functional films.
• Core–shell or encapsulated sorbents/catalysts with controlled release or anti-fouling properties.
• Photocatalytic, micro-electrolysis (such as iron-carbon, etc), fenton-like or enzymatic coatings for air & water treatment/purification.
• Smart/self-healing surface treatments that maintain remediation efficiency under cyclic stress.
• Barrier coatings preventing the leaching of legacy contaminants from solid matrices.
• Durable super wetting or underwater superoleophobic layers for oil/water separation.
• Life-cycle assessment, ecotoxicology and circular-economy aspects of coated remediation media.
• Field or pilot-scale validation of coated eco-materials in wastewater plants, soil caps, or air filters.
• Design, coating and modification of environmentally friendly materials produced from solid waste.

We look forward to your innovative contributions, which will help develop sustainable coatings into the next generation of environmental protection technologies.

Dr. Xiaowei Wang
Dr. Dongyang Li
Prof. Dr. Likun Huang
Guest Editors

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