Advanced Coating Material for Heritage Preservation, 2nd Edition
A special issue of Coatings (ISSN 2079-6412). This special issue belongs to the section "Corrosion, Wear and Erosion".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2025 | Viewed by 600
Special Issue Editors
Interests: protection of cultural relics; ancient material detection; microbial control in cultural heritage
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: protection of cultural relics; ancient buildings; inorganic cementitious materials; archaeology of science and technology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Nowadays, influenced by natural and human factors, a large number of immovable cultural heritage sites are being destroyed. One of the keys to the success of the protection of immovable cultural relics is the development of coating materials and technologies. However, immovable cultural relics are composed of a variety of materials and thus face different preservation environments and issues. Much evidence has underlined that proper coating materials and techniques can protect immovable cultural relics whilst the use of the wrong materials can cause more serious damage. This requires researchers to design different coating materials and develop appropriate coating technology according to the actual situation. Towards this goal, we are assembling a Special Issue of Coatings to encourage researchers and provide them with a platform to publish their novel studies.
The theme of this Special Issue broadly includes (but is not limited to) the following:
- Materials for use in the reinforcement of stone cultural relics;
- Fire-retardant coatings for wood cultural relics;
- Coating technology in heritage conservation;
- Multi-layer coating for cultural relics;
- Interactions between coatings and cultural relics;
- Degradation processes of coating materials in cultural relics;
- Novel coating and its characterizations for cultural relics;
- Sacrificial coating on the surface of cultural relics;
- Studies on the weather resistance of cultural relic coatings.
Dr. Yulan Hu
Dr. Shiqiang Fang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- immovable cultural heritage
- coating techniques
- fire-proof coating
- anti-weathering coating
- multi-layer
- interactions
- degradation
- weather resistance
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