Provides a comprehensive, yet practical source of reference, and excellent foundation for comparing the properties and performance of coatings and selecting the most suitable materials based on specific service needs and environmental factors.

Coating technology has developed significant techniques for protecting existing infrastructure from corrosion and erosion, maintaining and enhancing the performance of equipment, and provided novel functions such as smart coatings greatly benefiting the medical device, energy, automotive and construction industries.

The mechanisms, usage, and manipulation of cutting-edge coating methods are the focus of this book. Not only are the working mechanisms of coating materials explored in great detail, but also craft designs for further optimization of more uniform, safe, stable, and scalable coatings.

A group of leading experts in different coating technologies demonstrate their main applications, identify the key bottlenecks, and outline future prospects. Advanced Coating Materials broadly covers the coating techniques, including cold spray, plasma vapor deposition, chemical vapor deposition, sol–gel method, etc., and their significant applications in microreactor technology, super(de)wetting, joint implants, electrocatalyst, etc. Numerous kinds of coating structures are addressed, including nanosize particles, biomimicry structures, metals and complexed materials, along with the environmental and human compatible biopolymers resulting from microbial activities. This state-of-the-art book is divided into three parts: (1) Materials and Methods: Design and Fabrication, (2) Coating Materials: Nanotechnology, and (3) Advanced Coating Technology and Applications.

Liang Li received his PhD from the Institute of Solid State Physics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and won the Excellent President Scholarship in 2006. He is currently a full Professor at Soochow University, China. His research group (http://ecs.suda.edu.cn) focuses mainly on the energy conversion (solar cells and photodetectors) and storage (Li/Na batteries) devices of low-dimensional nanomaterials. He has published more than 140 papers with 6000 citations with an H-index of 40, as well as 16 patents.

Qing Yang is a Professor in the College of Optical Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, China. She received her PhD degree from Zhejiang University in 2006. Dr. Yang's research focuses on nanophotonics and piezo-photontronics. She has made original contributions to the fabrication, tuning and applications of nanophotonic devices and has pioneered and systematically investigated nanowire-based lasers. Dr. Yang has published about 55 peer reviewed journal articles with over 1500 citations and an H index of 25, as well as 11 Chinese or U.S. patents.