Recent Trends in Coatings and Thin Film–Modeling and Application

Dear Colleagues,

We would like to take this opportunity to invite researchers to contribute their original research work and review articles to this Special Issue on “Recent Trends in Coatings and Thin Film: Modeling and Application” to be published in Coatings. The goal of this Special Issue is to address challenges and current issues that either advance the state-of-the-art of experimental, numerical and theoretical methodologies or extends the bounds of existing methodologies to new contributions related to coatings and thin film containing whichever, magnetic, multiphase, material science, nanotechnology, surfaces, interfaces and mechanical sensing properties. We hope that this issue will, not only provide an overall picture and most up-to-date findings to readers from the scientific community working in the field, but would also benefit the industrial sectors in specific market niches and end users.

Potential topics dealing with the following subheadings are deemed suitable for publication (but are not limited to):

• Development and characterization of coatings
• Applications of thin films
• Nanostructured materials
• Surfaces and interfaces
• Applications of multiphase fluids
• Mathematical modeling on biological applications
• Electronics, magnetics and magneto-optics

Prof. Dr. Rahmat Ellahi
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

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