Advanced Deposition Technology for Functional Ceramic Films and Coatings
A special issue of Coatings (ISSN 2079-6412). This special issue belongs to the section "Ceramic Coatings and Engineering Technology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2023) | Viewed by 308
Special Issue Editor
Interests: fabrication of solid electrolyte fuel cells (SOFCs); fabrication of anodes and cathodes for SOFCs; fabrication of electrocatalysts in SOFCs; functional film ceramic fabrication and characterization processes; rheology of ceramic dispersions; fabrication of solid oxide steam electrolyzers; electrochemical metal extraction
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Over the last decades, the demand for advanced functional ceramic films and coatings has increased tremendously due to their crucial importance in the development of materials that are central to tackling urgent societal needs related to climate change and environmental challenges, along with their use to develop innovative, clean and environmentally friendly energy technologies. Such advanced performance films are always sought after in areas ranging from energy storage and conversion devices, such as ceramic fuel cells and electrolyzers, advanced batteries, and capacitors, to catalyst films in ceramic separation membranes, to corrosion prevention in aerospace, medical, automotive, and chemical industries. Although in all the above applications a significant impetus has been given from advanced materials development, the impact of processing and advanced fabrication methods towards thin films and coatings in particular has not been given an equal emphasis. It is a great pleasure to announce this Special Issue of Coatings devoted to “Advanced Deposition Technology for Functional Ceramic Films and Coatings”.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Advanced molecular deposition techniques for functional ceramic films in energy applications;
- Advanced molecular deposition techniques for ceramic films in the chemical industry and separation technologies;
- Advanced particulate deposition techniques for ceramic films and coatings;
- Scaling up of deposition technologies for advanced ceramic films and coatings;
- First-principle and process modeling of deposition technologies for ceramic films;
- Characterization techniques for functional ceramic films and coatings.
We look forward to receiving your contributions!
Prof. Dr. Nikolaos Kiratzis
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- thin films
- functional ceramics
- ceramic fuel cells
- ceramic electrolyzers
- ceramic membranes
- advanced ceramic coatings
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