Advances In Smart Coatings And Thin Films For Future Industrial and Biomedical Engineering Applications

Advances In Smart Coatings And Thin Films For Future Industrial and Biomedical Engineering Applications discusses in detail, the recent trends in designing, fabricating and manufacturing of smart coatings and thin films for future high-tech. industrial applications related to transportation, aerospace and biomedical engineering. Chapters cover fundamental aspects and diverse approaches used to fabricate smart self-healing anti-corrosion coatings, shape-memory coatings, polymeric and nano-bio-ceramic cotings, bio-inspired and stimuli-responsive coatings for smart surfaces with antibacterial activkity and controlled wettability, and electrically conductive coatings and their emerging applications.  With the emphasis on advanced methodologies and recent emerging applications of smart multifunctional coatings and thin films, this book is essential reading for materials scientists and rsearchers working in chemical sciences, advanced materials, sensors, pharmaceutical and biomedical engineering.

Discusses the most recent advances and innovations in smart multifunctional coatings and thin films in the transportation, aerospace and biomedical engineering industriesHighlights the synthesis methods, processing, testing and characterization of smart coatings and thin filmsReviews the current prospects and future trends within the industry

Part 1: Introduction 1. Fundamentals of smart coatings and thin films: synthesis, deposition methods and industrial applications

Part 2: Smart Multifunctional Coatings for Corrosion Protection 2. Recent Development in Smart Coatings for Steel Alloys and Their Impact in Steel Industry and Applications 3. Multifunctional and smart organic-inorganic hybrid sol-gel coatings for corrosion protection application 4. Self-healing Corrosion Protective Coatings in Transportation Industries 5. Multi-functional coatings based on smart nano-containers 6. Nano porous aluminum oxide film: Applications and Advances 7. Intelligent anticorrosion saline enabled self-healing coatings 8. Smart Coatings for Magnesium Alloys 9. Smart Coatings on Magnesium Alloys in Transportation Industries 10. Smart hybrid coatings for corrosion protection applications 11. A new generation carbon particles embedded DLC coatings

Part 3: Smart Coatings & Thin Films for Biomedical Applications 12. Shape Memory Coatings and Thin Films for Industrial and Medical Applications 13. Recent Trends In Smart Polymeric Coatings In Biomedicine And Drug Delivering Applications 14. Towards Smart and Durable Nano-ceramic & Nano-bio-ceramic Coatings and their Medical and Industrial Applications

Part 4: Bioinspired and Bio-based Smart Coatings and Thin Films 15. Bioinspired Coatings and Materials 16. Chitosan as anti-corrosion smart coating for aluminum alloys

Part 5: Smart Self-cleaning Coatings with Controlled Wettability 17. Multifunctional layers with nanocontainers of self-healing, self-cleaning and slow release activity 18. Superhydrophobic and Superamphiphobic Smart Surfaces 19. Smart superhydrophobic anticorrosive coatings

Part 6: Smart Antibacterial Coatings & Thin Films 20. Applications and Challenges of Antibacterial Smart Coatings 21. Cationic Polymers Based Antibacterial Smart Coatings

Part 7: Smart Electrically Conductive Coatings & Thin Films 22. Electrically Conducting Polyaniline Smart Coatings and Thin Films for Industrial Applications 23. Nanomaterials for Flexible Transparent Conductive Films and Optoelectronic Devices