Emerging Technologies for Development of Novel Materials Systems and Coatings (Volume 2)

Dear Colleagues,

The development of new material systems and coatings remains a multidisciplinary topic of high importance for scientists and technologists, providing remarkable functional properties improving performances in many traditional and high-tech industrial areas. New or emerging technologies for material synthesis and processing are needed to obtain material systems and coatings with design composition, microstructure, and architectures fulfilling the harsh requirements for applications in extreme mechanical, high temperature, high corrosion, or biological environmental conditions. Green chemical procedures with low environmental impact enable the fine tuning of components and dopants by controlling the kinetics and mechanisms involved in the synthesis of nanostructured composite or hybrid material system. The use of these advanced materials to obtain functionally graded materials and coating architectures may open new directions in the study of nucleation and growth processes using physical or chemical coating technologies and controlling functional properties. Additionally, additive manufacturing combined with coatings technologies may contribute to the reduction of some critical raw materials.

In this Special Issue, modern trends in novel material synthesis and coatings, including fundamental research, modelling, and optimisation are highlighted and discussed. Expected applications are in renewable energy (e.g., solid state batteries, photovoltaics, solid oxide fuel cells), gas turbines, energy-harvesting systems, sensors and actuators, and automotive and aerospace components.

It is my pleasure to invite you to submit a manuscript for this Special Issue. Full papers, communications, and reviews are all welcome.

Dr. Radu Robert Piticescu
Guest Editor

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