Advances in Ceramic Protective 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 (31 January 2022) | Viewed by 5708
Special Issue Editor
Interests: metallic materials; single crystals, polymers, graphene, degradation of materials; ion beam analytical methods RBS, ERDA, RBS-C, ion beam implantation
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
I would like to welcome you to submit your manuscript to this Special Issue, which is called “Advances in Ceramic Protective Films and Coatings”. The goal of this issue is to emphasize some of the most recent and interesting contributions to the ceramic protective coatings field using a combination of original research papers from around the world.
Ceramic protective films and coatings are helpful for various applications (medical and industrial applications, nuclear applications, etc.) which can be used in research fields such as electronics, tribology, catalytic chemistry, as well as in energy engineering. These applications include friction reduction, wear resistance, corrosion protection, thermal protection, hydrogen permeation barriers, electrical functionality, and optical functionality.
Ceramic films and coatings can be applied by different techniques including evaporation, plasma spraying, sputtering, chemical vapour deposition, sol-gel processing, and ion-beam implantation. The possible ranges of composition, quality of microstructures, and resulting properties of the material may vary depending on the method of preparation. Ceramic film or coatings can add desirable functions or modify required properties without changing the origin materials thanks to their unique abilities. It is shown that because of the different characteristics of thin films from bulk material, these materials attract more attention.
Dr. Romana Mikšová
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- ceramic films
- ceramic coatings
- corrosion protection
- ion-beam implantation
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