Visual Appearance of Mobility Coatings
A special issue of Coatings (ISSN 2079-6412). This special issue belongs to the section "Surface Characterization, Deposition and Modification".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 April 2024) | Viewed by 326
Special Issue Editor
Interests: color science and technology; visual appearance of materials; pigments; coatings
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We would like to invite you to submit your work to this Special Issue on “Visual Appearance of Mobility Coatings”. The integral performance of any coating technology for any future and current vehicle (car, airplane, train, ship, etc.), both for interior and exterior systems, is a complex balance involving a hybrid interdisciplinary multiscale approach from nano and micro to perceptual levels of the light–matter–brain interaction, and vice versa. In the automotive sector, though easily implementable and adjustable to other mobility markets, there is a high demand on the integral quality of coatings for metal and plastic substrates due to very dynamic market vectors such as mobility trends, digital marketing, new uses, etc., without losing the right balance between design, aesthetics, engineering, and functionality (safety, resistance, detectability, conspicuity, perceptual quality, etc.).
In particular, the topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Special-effect and functional pigments, even new structural coloration approaches;
- Coating ingredients for different functional purposes;
- Innovations in coating processes and technologies (sublayers, devices, etc.) for current and future vehicles, both in their exterior and interior systems, but also in other coatings applications (cases of multimedia devices, architectural, cosmetics, printing, etc.);
- Characterization methods for functional coatings (i.e., for LiDAR, RADAR ranges, etc.);
- Coating formulation models;
- Optical instrumentation for assuring the visual and surface appearance quality (BRDF, translucency, color, gloss, waviness, DOI, sparkle, graininess, harmony, etc.);
- Visual and instrumental correlation models and methods;
- Digital rendering techniques for improving the perceptual fidelity of the complex visual appearance of vehicle coatings and other coating applications;
- Special vehicles (air-taxis, etc.).
Dr. Francisco Verdu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- pigments
- additives
- coating systems
- functional coatings
- vehicles
- instrumentation for visual appearance
- digital simulation
- multiscale approach
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