Visual Effects Coatings and Surfaces

Dear Colleagues,

I propose this Special Issue on visual effect coatings, which cover many application areas. These effects can concern the different attributes of appearance: color, but also gloss, texture, and translucency.

A wide range of coating types and scales can be considered:

• Nanocomposite including plasmonic layers;
• Interferential layers;
• Structured coatings;
• Turbid medium coatings;
• Paint, ink, plastic coatings;
• Photoluminescent films.

Contributions from your teams would be an opportunity for all of us to draw research activity on coatings in the material appearance community:

• On the manufacture of these coatings;
• On measurements of their optical properties;
• On prediction models and appearance simulations;
• On the virtual rendering of these coatings.

This Special Issue is the initiative of the GDR APPAMAT, a French research group on the appearance of materials (http://gdr-appamat.cnrs.fr/).

Dr. Lionel Simonot
Guest Editor

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