Advances in Antibacterial Coatings
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Biomaterials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2021) | Viewed by 2145
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Human activities increasingly require antiseptic (and therefore antibacterial, antiviral, antifungal) properties for the surfaces of objects and structures with which we interact every day.
In addition to the most obvious applications such as operating rooms, surgical instruments, prostheses and dental implants or other orthopedic aids, there are also requests from industrial chains such as food handling operations. There are also more and more requests for antibacterial surfaces for commonly used devices such as electronic devices (cell phones, screens, etc.), as well as interiors and furnishings for vehicles (buses, cars) and structures (parts for waiting rooms, etc.). Even in space (i.e., The International Space Station (ISS) or the ExoMars project), antibacterial properties are required to avoid contamination of the living spaces and problems related to fungi on the electrical parts.
Unfortunately, the current pandemic has increased the demand even further.
There are many possible ways to impart antibacterial properties to a surface, but coatings are the most common and industrially exploited methods, both for their versatility and for the cost/benefit ratio that can be obtained.
Therefore, this Special Issue is dedicated to research and review papers tackling the problems of imparting antibacterial properties to objects and surfaces by using coatings for biomedical and other engineering applications.
Possible topics for this Special Issue include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Antibacterial coatings obtained by physical vapor deposition (PVD) technologies;
- Antibacterial coatings obtained by chemical vapor deposition (CVD) technologies;
- Antibacterial coatings obtained by atmospheric plasma treatments;
- Antibacterial coatings obtained by grafting or surface functionalization;
- Antibacterial coatings obtained by spraying technologies;
- Antibacterial coatings obtained by dry and wet chemical process or other surface treatments;
- Antibacterial coatings obtained by micromachining surfaces.
Dr. Sergio Perero
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- coatings
- antibacterial
- antiviral
- antiseptic
- physical vapor deposition (PVD)
- chemical vapor deposition (CVD)
- plasma
- spray
- wet and dry chemical process
- micromachining of surfaces
