TY - BOOK TI - Advances in Coatings Deposition and Characterization SN - 9783039217380 PY - 2020/// CY - Basel, Switzerland PB - MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute N1 - Open Access N2 - Coatings offer the unique opportunity to create architectures that combine the functionality of two or more materials, conferring unique properties to objects with an extremely large palette of solutions. For this flexibility, thick and thin films have terrific impacts on the most relevant societal challenges. Computers, food packaging, airplanes, and cars, to mention a few familiar objects from everyday life, rely heavily on coatings. To celebrate the key role that coatings have in society, and in science and technology, this book collects a selection of relevant reviews and original research articles published in Coatings in 2017 and 2018. Papers have been selected based on their broad impact and balancing between the two major aspects of coatings science and technology: deposition and characterization UR - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/68920 UR - https://mdpi.com/books/pdfview/selection/2687 UR - www.oapen.org ER -