Recent Progress of Inorganic Materials in Thin Film and Coatings for Functional Application
A special issue of Coatings (ISSN 2079-6412). This special issue belongs to the section "Surface Engineering for Energy Harvesting, Conversion, and Storage".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2024 | Viewed by 1622
Special Issue Editors
Interests: inorganic materials; composites; material synthesis; surface functionality; coatings; anticorrosion; catalysis; energy conversion and storage
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In organic materials usually serve as important components in thin films and coatings, and their morphologies or structure can bring excellent properties to the further specific applications in anticorrosion, catalysis, energy conversion or storage and so on. Moreover, the surface modification of inorganic materials can also influence their surface active sites or dispersion situation in the substrates, such as by chemical modification or plasma treatment. In this special issue “Recent progress of inorganic materials in thin film and coatings for functional application” of “Coatings”, the structure design of inorganic materials, which are used in thin film or coatings form, will be focused, and their morphologies or surface adjustments will be emphasized.
This scope of this Special Issue will include, but is not limited to, the following fundamental and applied research topics:
- Morphology control of inorganic materials and their application as thin film or coatings
- Surface modification of inorganic materials and their application as thin film or coatings
- Active sites control of inorganic materials (in thin film or coatings form rather than powder) for catalytic application
- Composites with inorganic materials for anticorrosion application
- The stabilization of inorganic and organic pigment
- Preparation and application of superhydrophobic coatings
Prof. Dr. Jingxia Yang
Dr. Xin Fan
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- inorganic materials
- morphology control
- surface modification
- anticorrosion
- catalysis
- dispersion
- superhydrophobic coatings
