Surface Engineered Materials

Dear Colleagues,

Nowadays surface engineering is a steadily expanding technological field with growing in complexity and involved methods. Nearly all available modern surface techniques are employed to alter, permanently or non-permanently, materials surfaces. Consequently, new and sometimes unexpected, properties have been obtained expanding the number of possibilities available for applications. Tailoring the chemical composition of a surface by chemical or physical treatments is a traditionally pivotal key to obtain engineered surfaces. However, more recently, morphological modification of surfaces proved to be as effective as chemical functionalization increasing the complexity of this research field but also providing new opportunities and powerful tools to engineers and surface scientists. Surface structuring using electrochemical, laser and plasma treatment or mechanical treatments, just to say a few, proved suitable to achieve the specific surface structure needed for advanced and innovative applications. The huge challenges, and opportunities, this field of research is presenting needs to be faced in a truly interdisciplinary approach, bringing together experts from different fields of knowledge: biologists, material and process engineers, physicists and chemists. For such reason we would like to invite you to submit your research paper to the multidisciplinary Topic titled: “Surface Engineered Materials”. This Topic seeks high-quality works including but not limited to:

• Interface Sciences and Applications
• Advances in Adhesion Sciences
• Modeling Theory of Surfaces
• Surface Biocompatibility
• Surface Characterization and Advanced Techniques
• Surface Corrosion
• Surface Crystallization
• Surface Hydration at Solid/Liquid Interface
• Surface Interactions at Bio-Interfaces
• Surface Interactions at the Nanoscale
• Surface Microscopy (SEM, AFM, High Speed AFM, STM...)
• Surface Nanopatterning

Dr. Stefano Caporali
Prof. Dr. Emanuele Galvanetto
Topic Editors