Dear Colleagues,

Coatings systems, as one of the most effective surface modification strategies, are attracting more and more research attention. Unlike other surface modification approaches, coatings treatment technology could realize the goal of multi-functionalizing matrix materials. For instance, various coatings systems endow matrix materials with superior anti-corrosive, anti-friction, anti-oxidation, anti-bacterial, biocompatible, and electromagnetic shielding properties. With different manufacturing methods, the obtained coatings are characterized via specific testing methods based on the proposed potential application of the coatings. Among all these types of coatings, the bio-coatings are the coatings with favourable biocompatibility or bioactivity, and their targeted application is in the biomedical field.

This Special Issue will serve as a forum for papers covering the following themes:

• Exploration of optimal bio-coatings’ fabrication techniques.
• Organic, inorganic, or composite bio-coatings manufactured by chemical or physical vapour deposition, laser cladding, plasma deposition, thermal spraying, anodization, sol-gel method, 3D printing, etc.
• Novel characterization methods applied to assess the bio-coating system.
• Property measurement and evaluation of the bio-coatings in the proposed application.
• Reliability or failure behaviour and their failure mechanism of bio-coatings under specific service environment.
• Machine learning predicting and verifying the relationship between the fabrication process and bio-coatings’ properties.
• Biological characterization on the coating system.
• Evaluation of biocompatibility, bioactivity, and biotribological properties of the coating.
• Assessment of the antibacterial coatings.

Dr. Yuyun Yang
Dr. Maizlinda Izwana Idris
Guest Editors

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• bio-coatings
• characterization methods
• properties evaluation
• machine learning