Recent Advances in Innovative Surface and Materials

Dear Colleagues,

We would like to invite you to submit your work to a Special Issue on “Recent Advances in Innovative Surface and Materials”. The main objective is to highlight the recent progress in innovative coatings with a great impact on different industries, such as automobile, medical, and biomedical, in protecting cultural heritage artifacts and so on. These coatings must possess special properties, such as crystallinity, hydrophobicity, homogeneity, adherence, hardness, toughness, corrosion resistance, biocompatibility, etc. In order to modify, improve, or even add new functionalities to the characteristics of a surface, a film of innovative material will be deposited on that surface. Coatings can be synthesized by a wide range of deposition techniques such as layer by layer, spinning, spraying, or chemical vapor deposition, depending on the purpose for which they are made.

This Special Issue aims to publish original articles, critical reviews, as well as perspectives, from leading research in both academia and industry on all aspects related to recent advances in design, processing, and development of coatings and materials for various applications. Contributions on new concepts, characterizations, simulation, and behavior in nominal conditions of materials are also welcome.

Dr. Ioana Cătălina Gîfu
Prof. Dr. Ludmila Otilia Cinteza
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Coatings is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.