Advanced Functional Coatings for Surface Engineering: Deposition, Properties and Applications

Dear Colleagues,

Advancements in surface engineering, encompassing techniques, characterization methods, and applications, are significant to the development of many other disciplines of science and technology. In the case of functional materials, there is a growing need for hybrid coatings, multi-layered materials, and nanoscale materials that assure increased surface properties, including hardness, wear resistance, low friction coefficient, biocompatibility, etc. For instance, coatings deposition technologies, also provided in hybrid systems, allow thin layers on different materials (polymeric, ceramics, and metals) and ensure a good adhesion to the substrate. In this regard, technologies carried out in reduced pressure conditions involving physical phenomena and chemical reactions in plasma have excellent prospects, as well as with immersion methods. New, potential technologies are related to selecting the chemical and phase composition of thin coatings and designing individual stages of the synthesis process. These lead to the obtaining of novel materials with specific functional properties. Thus, importantly, intentional processes in hybrid systems can be useful in obtaining layered materials for operating in the working conditions of a given structural element.

In view of the foregoing, we invite you to present your valuable research focused on the perspective possibility of obtaining functional coatings with the application of different deposition systems on metallic, polymeric, or ceramic substrates in the Special Issue of Materials entitled: “Advanced Functional Coatings for Surface Engineering: Deposition, Properties and Applications”. In particular, the topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Plasma-based processes;
• Additive manufacturing processes;
• Dip-coating, spin-coating, and spray-coating methods;
• Thermal barrier coatings;
• Anti-wear properties, anti-corrosion properties;
• Bioactive, biocompatibility, drug delivery systems;
• Self-healing coatings, self-cleaning;
• Gradient coatings, microstructure evolution;
• Anti-wear application, cutting tools, motor industry, and aviation industry;
• Optical and electronic devices, bioengineering.

Dr. Karol Kyzioł
Guest Editor

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