Functional Coating Materials and Processing for Platform Technology

Dear Colleagues,

Coating processes are widely incorporated in manufacturing displays, multilayer ceramic capacitors, secondary batteries, solar cells, and printed electronics. The final performance of functional devices is closely associated with coating materials and processing, considering the heterogeneity of particles and transport phenomena of complex fluids. It is thus important to elucidate the dispersion, drying, and curing phenomena of coating materials and successfully apply functional coating materials to advanced coating processes for next-generation electronic products. This Special Issue aims to address recent developments of functional coating materials and processing for platform technology. Topics include but are not limited to:

• Functional organic or inorganic coating materials: polymeric particles, organic/inorganic/hybrid materials, dispersants, binders, etc.;
• Transport phenomena of coating fluids: flow dynamics, stability, heterogeneity, etc.;
• Fundamentals and control of drying and curing processes;
• Design and analysis of advanced coating processes: slurry coating, double layer coating, particulate coating, etc.;
• Application to displays, secondary batteries, printed electronics, solar cells, and multilayer ceramic capacitors.

Prof. Dr. Jun Hyup Lee
Guest Editor

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