期刊名称：COATINGS
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ISSN： | 2079-6412
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出版频率： | Monthly
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出版社： | MDPI, ST ALBAN-ANLAGE 66, BASEL, SWITZERLAND, CH-4052
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出版社网址： | http://www.mdpi.com/
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期刊网址： | http://www.mdpi.com/journal/coatings
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影响因子： | 2.881 |
| 主题范畴： | MATERIALS SCIENCE, MULTIDISCIPLINARY; MATERIALS SCIENCE, COATINGS & FILMS; PHYSICS, APPLIED |
| 变更情况： | Newly Added by 2016 |
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
About Coatings
AimsCoatings (ISSN 2079-6412) is an international, peer-reviewed and open access journal devoted to the science and engineering of coatings, thin and thick films, surfaces and interfaces. Coatings publishes original research papers and brief communications that report on the latest finding of research together with review papers that systematize the mark the point on the state of the art. Our aim is to encourage scientists to publish their experimental and theoretical results in as much detail as possible. There is no restriction on the length of the papers. Full experimental and/or methodical details must be provided.
Scope
The journal covers coatings, surfaces and interfaces in the broader sense. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Thin and thick films
- Processes for coating deposition and modification
- Characterization techniques
- Functional, protective and decorative coatings
- Dyes, pigments and their intermediates
- Wear, corrosion, erosion
- Coatings for high temperature
- Film materials for packaging
- Applied surface science
- Adsorption, adhesion, functionalization
- Fundamental and functional properties of surface and interfaces
- Theoretical and computational modeling of surfaces and interfaces
- High surface area systems: colloids, nanoparticles, large interfaces
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Instructions to Authors
Coatings — Instructions for Authors
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Submission Checklist
Please
- read the Aims & Scope to gain an overview and assess if your manuscript is suitable for this journal;
- use the Microsoft Word template or LaTeX template to prepare your manuscript;
- make sure that issues about publication ethics, copyright, authorship, figure formats, data and references format have been appropriately considered; and
- ensure that all authors have approved the content of the submitted manuscript.
Manuscript Submission Overview
Types of Publications
Coatings has no restrictions on the length of manuscripts, provided that the text is concise and comprehensive. Full experimental details must be provided so that the results can be reproduced. Coatings requires that authors publish all experimental controls and make full datasets available where possible (please read the guidelines about Supplementary Materials and references to unpublished data carefully).
Manuscripts submitted to Coatings should neither been published before nor be under consideration for publication in another journal. The main article types are as follows:
- Articles: research manuscripts that report new evidence or new conclusions. The journal considers all original research manuscripts provided that the work reports scientifically sound experiments and provides a substantial amount of new information. Authors should not unnecessarily divide their work into several related manuscripts, although short Communications of preliminary, but significant, results will be considered. Replications of previous studies are permitted if clearly indicated as such.
- Reviews: review manuscripts provide concise and precise updates on the latest progress made in a given area of research. Systematic reviews should follow the PRISMA guidelines.
- Conference Papers: Expanded and high quality conference papers are also considered in Coatings if they fulfill the following requirements: (1) the paper should be expanded to the size of a research article; (2) the conference paper should be cited and noted on the first page of the paper; (3) if the authors do not hold the copyright to the published conference paper, authors should seek the appropriate permission from the copyright holder; (4) authors are asked to disclose that it is conference paper in their cover letter and include a statement on what has been changed compared to the original conference paper.
Submission Process
Manuscripts for Coatings should be submitted online at susy.mdpi.com. The submitting author, who is generally the corresponding author, is responsible for the manuscript during the submission and peer-review process. The submitting author must ensure that all eligible co-authors have been included in the author list (read the criteria to qualify for authorship) and that they all have read and approved the submitted version of the manuscript. To submit your manuscript, register and log in to the submission website. Once you have registered, click here to go to the submission form for Coatings. All co-authors can see the manuscript details in the submission system, if they register and log in using the e-mail address provided during manuscript submission.
Accepted File Formats
Authors must use the Microsoft Word template or LaTeX template to prepare their manuscript. Using the template file will substantially shorten the time to complete copy-editing and publication of accepted manuscripts. Accepted file formats are:
- Microsoft Word: Manuscripts prepared in Microsoft Word must be converted into a single file before submission. When preparing manuscripts in Microsoft Word, the Coatings Microsoft Word template file must be used. Please insert your graphics (schemes, figures, etc.) in the main text after the paragraph of its first citation.
- LaTeX: Manuscripts prepared in LaTeX must be collated into one ZIP folder (include all source files and images, so that the Editorial Office can recompile the submitted PDF). When preparing manuscripts in LaTeX, please use the Coatings LaTeX template files. You can now also use the online application writeLaTeX to submit articles directly to Coatings. The MDPI LaTeX template file should be selected from the writeLaTeX template gallery.
- Supplementary files: May be any format, but it is recommended that you use common, non-proprietary formats where possible (see below for further details).
Cover Letter
A cover letter must be included with each manuscript submission. It should be concise and explain why the content of your paper is significant, placing your findings in the context of existing work and why it fits the scope of the journal. Please confirm that neither the manuscript nor any parts of its content are currently under consideration or published in another journal. Any prior submissions of the manuscript to MDPI journals must be acknowledged. The names of proposed and excluded reviewers should be provided in the submission system, not in the cover letter.
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Preparation of a Manuscript
General Considerations
- Research manuscripts should comprise:
- Front matter: Title, Author list, Affiliations, Abstract, Keywords
- Research manuscript sections: Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusions (optional).
- Back matter: Supplementary Materials, Acknowledgments, Author Contributions, Conflicts of Interest, References.
- Review manuscripts should comprise the front matter, literature review sections and the back matter. The template file can also be used to prepare the front and back matter of your review manuscript. It is not necessary to follow the remaining structure. Structured reviews and meta-analyses should use the same structure as research articles and ensure they conform to the PRISMA guidelines.
- Abstract graphic: Authors are encouraged to provide a graphical abstract as a self-explanatory image to appear alongside with the text abstract in the Table of Contents. Figures should be a high quality image in any common image format. Note that images displayed online will be up to 11 by 9 cm on screen and the figure should be clear at this size.
- Abbreviations should be defined in parentheses the first time they appear in the abstract, main text, and in figure or table captions.
- SI Units (International System of Units) should be used. Imperial, US customary and other units should be converted to SI units whenever possible
- Equations: If you are using Word, please use either the Microsoft Equation Editor or the MathType add-on. Equations should be editable by the editorial office and not appear in a picture format.
- Research Data and supplementary materials: Note that publication of your manuscript implies that you must make all materials, data, and protocols associated with the publication available to readers. Please disclose at the submission stage any restrictions on the availability of materials or information. Read the information about Supplementary Materials and Data Deposit for additional guidelines.
- Preregistration: Where authors have preregistered studies or analysis plans, links to the preregistration must be provided in the manuscript.
- Guidelines and standards: MDPI follows standards and guidelines for certain types of research. See http://www.mdpi.com/editorial_process for further information.
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Front Matter
These sections should appear in all manuscript types
- Title: The title of your manuscript should be concise, specific and relevant. It should identify if the study reports (human or animal) trial data, or is a systematic review, meta-analysis or replication study.
- Author List and Affiliations: Authors' full first and last names must be provided. The initials of any middle names can be added. The PubMed/MEDLINE standard format is used for affiliations: complete address information including city, zip code, state/province, country, and all email addresses. At least one author should be designated as corresponding author, and his or her email address and other details should be included at the end of the affiliation section. Please read the criteria to qualify for authorship.
- Abstract: The abstract should be a total of about 200 words maximum. The abstract should be a single paragraph and should follow the style of structured abstracts, but without headings: 1) Background: Place the question addressed in a broad context and highlight the purpose of the study; 2) Methods: Describe briefly the main methods or treatments applied. Include any relevant preregistration numbers, and species and strains of any animals used. 3) Results: Summarize the article's main findings; and 4) Conclusion: Indicate the main conclusions or interpretations. The abstract should be an objective representation of the article: it must not contain results which are not presented and substantiated in the main text and should not exaggerate the main conclusions.
- Keywords: Three to ten pertinent keywords need to be added after the abstract. We recommend that the keywords are specific to the article, yet reasonably common within the subject discipline.
Research Manuscript Sections
- Introduction: The introduction should briefly place the study in a broad context and highlight why it is important. It should define the purpose of the work and its significance, including specific hypotheses being tested. The current state of the research field should be reviewed carefully and key publications cited. Please highlight controversial and diverging hypotheses when necessary. Finally, briefly mention the main aim of the work and highlight the main conclusions. As far as possible, please keep the introduction comprehensible to scientists working outside the topic of the paper.
- Materials and Methods: They should be described with sufficient detail to allow others to replicate and build on published results. New methods and protocols should be described in detail while well-established methods can be briefly described and appropriately cited. Give the name and version of any software used and make clear whether computer code used is available. Include any pre-registration codes.
- Results: Provide a concise and precise description of the experimental results, their interpretation as well as the experimental conclusions that can be drawn.
- Discussion: Authors should discuss the results and how they can be interpreted in perspective of previous studies and of the working hypotheses. The findings and their implications should be discussed in the broadest context possible and limitations of the work highlighted. Future research directions may also be mentioned. This section may be combined with Results.
- Conclusions: This section is not mandatory, but can be added to the manuscript if the discussion is unusually long or complex.
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Back Matter
- Supplementary Materials: Describe any supplementary material published online alongside the manuscript (figure, tables, video, spreadsheets, etc.). Please indicate the name and title of each element as follows Figure S1: title, Table S1: title, etc.
- Acknowledgments: All sources of funding of the study should be disclosed. Clearly indicate grants that you have received in support of your research work and if you received funds to cover publication costs. Note that some funders will not refund article processing charges (APC) if the funder and grant number are not clearly and correctly identified in the paper. Funding information can be entered separately into the submission system by the authors during submission of their manuscript. Such funding information, if available, will be deposited to FundRef if the manuscript is finally published.
- Author Contributions: For research articles with several authors, a short paragraph specifying their individual contributions must be provided. The following statements should be used "X and Y conceived and designed the experiments; X performed the experiments; Y analyzed the data; W contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools; Y wrote the paper." Authorship must include and be limited to those who have contributed substantially to the work. Please read the section concerning the criteria to qualify for authorship carefully.
- Conflicts of Interest: Authors must identify and declare any personal circumstances or interest that may be perceived as inappropriately influencing the representation or interpretation of reported research results. If there is no conflict of interest, please state "The authors declare no conflict of interest." Any role of the funding sponsors in the design of the study; in the collection, analyses or interpretation of data; in the writing of the manuscript, or in the decision to publish the results must be declared in this section. If there is no role, please state “The founding sponsors had no role in the design of the study; in the collection, analyses, or interpretation of data; in the writing of the manuscript, and in the decision to publish the results”.
- References: References must be numbered in order of appearance in the text (including table captions and figure legends) and listed individually at the end of the manuscript. We recommend preparing the references with a bibliography software package, such as EndNote, ReferenceManager or Zotero to avoid typing mistakes and duplicated references. We encourage citations to data, computer code and other citable research material. If available online, you may use reference style 9. below.
- Citations and References in Supplementary files are permitted provided that they also appear in the main text and in the reference list.
In the text, reference numbers should be placed in square brackets [ ], and placed before the punctuation; for example [1], [1–3] or [1,3]. For embedded citations in the text with pagination, use both parentheses and brackets to indicate the reference number and page numbers; for example [5] (p. 10). or [6] (pp. 101–105).
The Reference list should include the full title as recommended by the ACS style guide. The style file for endnote, MDPI.ens, can be found at http://endnote.com/downloads/style/mdpi References should be described as follows, depending on the type of work:
- Journal Articles:
1. Author 1, A.B.; Author 2, C.D. Title of the article. Abbreviated Journal Name Year, Volume, page range, DOI or other identifier. Available online: URL (accessed on Day Month Year).
- Books and Book Chapters:
2. Author 1, A.; Author 2, B. Book Title, 3rd ed.; Publisher: Publisher Location, Country, Year; pp. 154–196.
3. Author 1, A.; Author 2, B. Title of the chapter. In Book Title, 2nd ed.; Editor 1, A.; Editor 2, B., Eds.; Publisher: Publisher Location, Country, Year; Volume 3, pp. 154–196.
- Unpublished work, submitted work, personal communication:
4. Author 1, A.B.; Author 2, C. Title of Unpublished Work. status (unpublished; manuscript in preparation).
5.Author 1, A.B.; Author 2, C. Title of Unpublished Work. Abbreviated Journal Name stage of publication (under review; accepted; in press).
6.Author 1, A.B. (University, City, State, Country); Author 2, C. (Institute, City, State, Country). Personal communication, Year.
- Conference Proceedings:
7. Author 1, A.B.; Author 2, C.D.; Author 3, E.F. Title of Presentation. In Title of the Collected Work (if available), Proceedings of the Name of the Conference, Location of Conference, Country, Date of Conference; Editor 1, Editor 2, Eds. (if available); Publisher: City, Country, Year (if available); Abstract Number (optional), Pagination (optional).
- Thesis:
8. Author 1, A.B. Title of Thesis. Level of Thesis, Degree-Granting University, Location of University, Date of Completion.
- Websites:
9.Title of Site. Available online: URL (accessed on Day Month Year).
Unlike published works, websites may change over time or disappear, so we encourage you create an archive of the cited website using a service such as WebCite. Archived websites should be cited using the link provided as follows:
10. Title of Site. URL (archived on Day Month Year).
See the Reference List and Citations Guide for more detailed information.
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Preparing Figures, Schemes and Tables
- File for Figures and schemes must be provided during submission in a single zip archive and at a sufficiently high resolution (minimum 1000 pixels width/height, or a resolution of 300 dpi or higher). Common formats are accepted, however, TIFF, JPEG, EPS and PDF are preferred.
- Coatings can publish multimedia files in articles or as supplementary materials. Please contact the editorial office for further information.
- All Figures, Schemes and Tables should be inserted into the main text close to their first citation and must be numbered following their number of appearance (Figure 1, Scheme I, Figure 2, Scheme II, Table 1, etc.).
- All Figures, Schemes and Tables should have a short explanatory title and caption.
- All table columns should have an explanatory heading. To facilitate the copy-editing of larger tables, smaller fonts may be used, but no less than 8 pt. in size. Authors should use the Table option of Microsoft Word to create tables.
- Authors are encouraged to prepare figures and schemes in color (RGB at 8-bit per channel). There is no additional cost for publishing full color graphics.
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Supplementary Materials, Data Deposit and Software Source Code
Data Availability
In order to maintain the integrity, transparency and reproducibility of research records, authors must make their experimental and research data openly available either by depositing into data repositories or by publishing the data and files as supplementary information in this journal.
Computer Code and Software
For work where novel computer code was developed, authors should release the code either by depositing in a recognized, public repository or uploading as supplementary information to the publication. The name and version of all software used should be clearly indicated.
Supplementary Material
Additional data and files can be uploaded as "Supplementary Files" during the manuscript submission process. The supplementary files will also be available to the referees as part of the peer-review process. Any file format is acceptable, however we recommend that common, non-proprietary formats are used where possible.
Unpublished Data
Restrictions on data availability should be noted during submission and in the manuscript. "Data not shown" should be avoided: authors are encouraged to publish all observations related to the submitted manuscript as Supplementary Material. "Unpublished data" intended for publication in a manuscript that is either planned, "in preparation" or "submitted" but not yet accepted, should be cited in the text and a reference should be added in the References section. "Personal Communication" should also be cited in the text and reference added in the References section. (see also the MDPI reference list and citations style guide).
Remote Hosting and Large Data Sets
Data may be deposited with specialized service providers or institutional/subject repositories, preferably those that use the DataCite mechanism. Large data sets and files greater than 60 MB must be deposited in this way. For a list of repositories specialized in scientific and experimental data, please consult databib.org or re3data.org. The data repository name, link to the data set (URL) and accession number, doi or handle number of the data set must be provided in the paper. The journal Data also accepts submissions of data set papers.
References in Supplementary Files
Citations and References in Supplementary files are permitted provided that they also appear in the reference list of the main text.
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Research Ethics
Research Involving Human Subjects
When reporting on research that involves human subjects, human material, human tissues or human data, authors must declare that the investigations were carried out following the rules of the Declaration of Helsinki of 1975 (http://www.wma.net/en/30publications/10policies/b3/), revised in 2008. According to point 23 of this declaration, an approval from an ethics committee should have been obtained before undertaking the research. As a minimum, a statement including the project identification code, date of approval and name of the ethics committee or institutional review board should be cited in the Methods Section of the article. Data relating to individual participants must be described in detail, but private information identifying participants need not be included unless the identifiable materials are of relevance to the research (for example, photographs of participants’ faces that show a particular symptom). A written informed consent for publication must be obtained from participating patients in this case.
Editors reserve the rights to reject any submission that does not meet these requirements.
Example of Ethical Statements:
All subjects gave their informed consent for inclusion before they participated in the study. The study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki, and the protocol was approved by the Ethics Committee of XXX (Project identification code).
Research Involving Plants
Experimental research on plants (either cultivated or wild) including collection of plant material, must comply with institutional, national, or international guidelines. We recommend that authors comply with the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Convention on the Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora.
For each submitted manuscript supporting genetic information and origin must be provided. For research manuscripts involving rare and non-model plants (other than, e.g., Arabidopsis thaliana, Nicotiana benthamiana, Oriza sativa, or many other typical model plants), voucher specimens must be deposited in an accessible herbarium or museum. Vouchers may be requested for review by future investigators to verify the identity of the material used in the study (especially if taxonomic rearrangements occur in the future). They should include details of the populations sampled on the site of collection (GPS coordinates), date of collection, and document the part(s) used in the study where appropriate. For rare, threatened or endangered species this can be waived but it is necessary for the author to describe this in the cover letter.
Editors reserve the rights to reject any submission that does not meet these requirements.
An example of Ethical Statements:
Torenia fournieri plants were used in this study. White-flowered Crown White (CrW) and violet-flowered Crown Violet (CrV) cultivars selected from ‘Crown Mix’ (XXX Company, City, Country) were kindly provided by Dr. XXX (XXX Institute, City, Country).
Arabidopis mutant lines (SALKxxxx, SAILxxxx,…) were kindly provided by Dr. XXX , institute, city, country).
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Suggesting Reviewers
During the submission process, authors may list names of potential reviewers with the appropriate expertise to review the manuscript. The editors will not necessarily approach these referees. Please provide detailed contact information (address, homepage, phone, e-mail address). The proposed referees should neither be current collaborators of the co-authors nor have published with any of the co-authors of the manuscript within the last five years. Proposed reviewers should be from different institutions to the authors. You may identify appropriate Editorial Board members of the journal as potential reviewers. You may also suggest reviewers from among the authors that you frequently cite in your paper.
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English Corrections
To facilitate proper peer-reviewing of your manuscript, it is essential that it is submitted in grammatically correct English. Advice on some specific language points can be found here.
If you are not a native English speaker, we recommend that you have your manuscript professionally edited before submission or read by a native English-speaking colleague. This can be carried out by MDPI's English editing service. Professional editing will mean that reviewers and future readers are better able to read and assess the content of your manuscript. All accepted manuscript undergo language editing, however an additional fee will be charged to authors if very extensive English corrections must be made by the Editorial Office: pricing is according the the service here.
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Qualification for Authorship
Authorship must include and be strictly limited to researchers who substantially contributed to the design of the study, the production, analysis, or interpretation of the results, and/or preparation of the manuscript. Those who contributed to the work but do not qualify for authorship should be listed in the acknowledgments. More detailed guidance on authorship is given by the International Council of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE). The journal also adheres to the standards of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) that "all authors should agree to be listed and should approve the submitted and accepted versions of the publication. Any change to the author list should be approved by all authors including any who have been removed from the list. The corresponding author should act as a point of contact between the editor and the other authors and should keep co-authors informed and involve them in major decisions about the publication (e.g. answering reviewers’ comments)." [1]
- Wager, E.; Kleinert, S. Responsible research publication: international standards for authors. A position statement developed at the 2nd World Conference on Research Integrity, Singapore, July 22-24, 2010. In Promoting Research Integrity in a Global Environment; Mayer, T., Steneck, N., eds.; Imperial College Press / World Scientific Publishing: Singapore; Chapter 50, pp. 309-16.
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Editorial Procedures and Peer-Review
Initial Checks
All submitted manuscripts received by the Editorial Office will be checked by a professional in-house Managing Editor to determine whether it is properly prepared and whether the manuscript follows the ethical policies of the journal. Manuscripts that do not fit the journals ethical policy will be rejected before peer-review. Manuscripts that are not properly prepared will be returned to the authors for revision and resubmission. After these checks, the Managing Editor will consult the journals’ Editor-in-Chief or the Guest Editor (or an Editorial Board member in case of a conflict of interest) to determine whether the manuscript fits the scope of the journal and whether it is scientifically sound. No judgment on the significance or potential impact of the work will be made at this stage. Reject decisions at this stage will be verified by the Editor-in-Chief.
Peer-Review
Once a manuscript passes the initial checks, it will be assigned to at least two independent experts for peer-review. A single-blind review is applied, where authors' identities are known to reviewers. Peer review comments are confidential and will only be disclosed with the express agreement of the reviewer.
In the case of regular submissions, in-house assistant editors will invite experts, including recommendations by an academic editor. These experts may also include Editorial Board members and Guest Editors of the journal. In the case of a special issue, the Guest Editor will advise on the selection of reviewers.
Potential reviewers suggested by the authors may also be considered. Reviewers should not have published with any of the co-authors during the past five years and should not currently work or collaborate with one of the institutes of the co-authors of the submitted manuscript.
Editorial Decision and Revision
Based on the comments and advice of the peer-reviewers, an external editor – usually the Editor-in-Chief or a Guest Editor – will make a decision to accept, reject, or to ask authors to revise the manuscript.
For Minor Revisions the authors will have one week to resubmit their revised manuscript. For Major Revisions the authors will have two weeks to resubmit their revised manuscript. However, authors should contact the editorial office if extended revision time is anticipated.
All reviewer comments should be responded to in a point-by-point fashion. Where the authors disagree with a reviewer, they must provide a clear response.
Author Appeals
Authors may appeal a rejection by sending an e-mail to the Editorial Office of the journal. The appeal must provide a detailed justification, including point-by-point responses to the reviewers' and/or Editor's comments. The Managing Editor of the journal will forward the manuscript and relating information (including the identities of the referees) to an Editorial Board member. If no appropriate Editorial Board member is available, the editor will identify a suitable external scientist. The Editorial Board member will be asked to give an advisory recommendation on the manuscript and may recommend acceptance, further peer-review, or uphold the original rejection decision. A reject decision at this stage will be final and cannot be revoked.
In the case of a special issue, the Managing Editor of the journal will forward the manuscript and relating information (including the identities of the referees) to the Editor-in-Chief who will be asked to give an advisory recommendation on the manuscript and may recommend acceptance, further peer-review, or uphold the original rejection decision. A reject decision at this stage will be final and cannot be revoked.
Production and Publication
Once accepted, the manuscript will undergo professional copy-editing, English editing, proofreading by the authors, final corrections, pagination, and, publication on the www.mdpi.com website.
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Publication Ethics Statement
Coatings is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). We fully adhere to its Code of Conduct and to its Best Practice Guidelines.
The editors of this journal enforce a rigorous peer-review process together with strict ethical policies and standards to ensure to add high quality scientific works to the field of scholarly publication. Unfortunately, cases of plagiarism, data falsification, image manipulation, inappropriate authorship credit, and the like, do arise. The editors of Coatings take such publishing ethics issues very seriously and are trained to proceed in such cases with a zero tolerance policy.
Authors wishing to publish their papers in Coatings must abide to the following:
- Any facts that might be perceived as a possible conflict of interest of the author(s) must be disclosed in the paper prior to submission.
- Authors should accurately present their research findings and include an objective discussion of the significance of their findings.
- Data and methods used in the research need to be presented in sufficient detail in the paper, so that other researchers can replicate the work.
- Raw data should preferably be publicly deposited by the authors before submission of their manuscript. Authors need to at least have the raw data readily available for presentation to the referees and the editors of the journal, if requested. Authors need to ensure appropriate measures are taken so that raw data is retained in full for a reasonable time after publication.
- Simultaneous submission of manuscripts to more than one journal is not tolerated.
- Republishing content that is not novel is not tolerated (for example, an English translation of a paper that is already published in another language will not be accepted).
- If errors and inaccuracies are found by the authors after publication of their paper, they need to be promptly communicated to the editors of this journal so that appropriate actions can be taken. Please refer to our policy regarding publication of publishing addenda and corrections.
- Your manuscript should not contain any information that has already been published. If you include already published figures or images, please obtain the necessary permission from the copyright holder to publish under the CC-BY license. For further information, see the Rights and Permissions page.
- Plagiarism, data fabrication and image manipulation are not tolerated.
- Plagiarism is not acceptable in Coatings submissions.
Plagiarism includes copying text, ideas, images, or data from another source, even from your own publications, without giving any credit to the original source.
Reuse of text that is copied from another source must be between quotes and the original source must be cited. If a study's design or the manuscript's structure or language has been inspired by previous works, these works must be explicitly cited.
If plagiarism is detected during the peer review process, the manuscript may be rejected. If plagiarism is detected after publication, we may publish a correction or retract the paper.
- Image files must not be manipulated or adjusted in any way that could lead to misinterpretation of the information provided by the original image.
Irregular manipulation includes: 1) introduction, enhancement, moving, or removing features from the original image; 2) grouping of images that should obviously be presented separately (e.g., from different parts of the same gel, or from different gels); or 3) modifying the contrast, brightness or color balance to obscure, eliminate or enhance some information.
If irregular image manipulation is identified and confirmed during the peer review process, we may reject the manuscript. If irregular image manipulation is identified and confirmed after publication, we may correct or retract the paper.
Our in-house editors will investigate any allegations of publication misconduct and may contact the authors' institutions or funders if necessary. If evidence of misconduct is found, appropriate action will be taken to correct or retract the publication. Authors are expected to comply with the best ethical publication practices when publishing with MDPI.
Editorial Board
Coatings — Editors
Journal ContactCoatings Editorial Office MDPI AG, St. Alban-Anlage 66, 4052 Basel, Switzerland E-Mail: Tel. +41 61 683 77 34; Fax: +41 61 302 89 18
Ms. Zhiqiao Dong Senior Assistant EditorMDPI Haidian Office, Aerospace Cooperation Building, 8th Floor, No.99 Zhongguancun East Road, Beijing 100190, China E-Mail
Editors
Dr. Alessandro Lavacchi Editor-in-ChiefIstituto di Chimica dei Composti OrganoMetallici (ICCOM-CNR), Via Madonna del Piano 10, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Firenze, Italy E-Mail Interests: electrodeposition of materials for renewable energy production; surface engineering; corrosion and corrosion protection; thermal barriers coatings; electron microscopy (SEM, TEM); X-ray techniques for surface structure and composition (XPS, XRF, XRD); electroless deposition of metals and cermet’s; simulation and modelling of complex electrochemical systems Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals
Prof. Dr. Massimo Innocenti Associate EditorDepartment of Chemistry, University of Florence, via della Lastruccia 3, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino , Firenze , Italy Website | E-Mail Interests: electroanalytical chemistry; elettrodeposition; energy; fuel cells; thin film solar cells Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals
Prof. Dr. Ugo Bardi Former Editor-in-ChiefDipartimento di Scienze della Terra, c/o Dipartimento di Chimica, Polo Scientifico di Sesto Fiorentino, Università di Firenze, Via Della Lastruccia 3, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino (Fi), Italy Website | E-Mail Interests: coatings and surface engineering; electrodeposition from ionic liquids, with a special view on aluminium coatings; thermal barriers manufacturing, testing, and characterization for the aerospace and energy production industry; scanning probe microscopy (SPM); electron microscopy (SEM, TEM); surface composition measurements; photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS); scanning auger microscopy (SAM); low energy ion scattering (LEIS) Founding Editor-in-Chief Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals
Editorial Board
Dr. Klaus Pagh Almtoft Tribology Centre, Danish Technological Insitute, Kongsvang Allé 29, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark E-Mail Interests: sputter deposition; Industrial-scale sputtering; PVD coatings; surface enginering; pulsed DC sputtering; HiPIMS; HPPMS; oxides; nitrides; carbides; DLC; tribology; ion-beam assisted deposition (IBAD); ion implantation; photocatalysis; X-ray diffraction (XRD, XRR, pole figures); electron microscopy (SEM, TEM); Rutherford backscattering; EDX
Prof. Dr. Yasutaka Ando Division of Renewable energy and Environment, Ashikaga Institute of Technology 268-1 Omae, Ashikaga Tochigi 326-8558, Japan Website | E-Mail Interests: thermal spray technology; photocatalysis; CVD; diamond; nitriding, XRD Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue: Thermal Spray Technology
Prof. Dr. Sheryl Barringer The Ohio State University, 110 Parker Food Science Building, 2015 Fyffe Road, Columbus OH 43210, USA E-Mail Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue: Food Coatings
Prof. Dr. Hadj Benkreira Department of Chemical Engineering, School of Engineering, University of Bradford, West Yorkshire BD7 1DP, UK E-Mail Interests: coatings and surface engineering; fluid mechanics of coating flows; rheology of coating fluids; visualisation of coating flows; dynamic wetting; instabilities; nanocomposites
Dr. Jean-François Berret Laboratoire Matière et Systèmes Complexes, UMR 7057 Université Paris-Diderot/CNRS Batiment Condorcet, 10 rue Alice Domon et Léonie Duquet, F-75205 Paris Cedex 13, France Website | E-Mail Interests: biocompatible coating; multilayer coatings; polymeric and organic coatings; coatings in nanomedicine; particle and nanoparticle coatings
Prof. Dr. Filippo Berto Department of Management and Engineering, University of Padua, Vicenza, Italy Website | E-Mail Interests: fatigue of advanced and traditional materials; surface roughness; tribology; fracture mechanics; solid mechanics Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue: The Brittle Failure of Different Materials
Prof. Dr. Steve Bull School of Chemical Engineering and Advanced Materials, Newcastle University, Bedson Building, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK Website1 | Website2 | E-Mail Interests: mechanical characterisation of thin coatings, nanoindentation, nanoscratch, impact and fracture studies; mechanical damage of submicron coatings for electronic and optical applications, performance and reliability of thin films for energy generation and storage; tribology of functional materials
Prof. Dr. Joaquim Carneiro Department of Physics, School of Science, University of Minho, Azurém Campus4800-058 Guimarães, Portugal Website | E-Mail Interests: material science and nanotechnology; thin films—magnetron sputtering deposition; functionalized nanoscale and nanostructured materials and surfaces; development and characterization of photocatalytic coatings (thin films, nanoparticles) with self-cleaning, anti- fogging, air-purifying and anti- antibacterial functions; structure and surface characterization by electron microscopy (SEM, TEM) and atomic force microscopy (AFM) Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue: Recent Aspects of Thin Films Deposited by Magnetron Sputtering and Emerging Applications
Prof. Dr. Namita Roy Choudhury Ian Wark Research Institute, University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes, South Australia Website | E-Mail Interests: polymer coating, hybrid coating, surface modification, self healing coating, anticorrosion coating, polymer Science
Prof. Dr. Bill Clyne Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, 27 Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge CB3 0FS, UK Website | E-Mail Interests: plasma electrolytic oxidation; plasma spraying; residual stresses; interfacial debonding; thermal barrier coatings
Prof. Dr. Philippe Dubois Center of Innovation and Research in Materials & Polymers, University of Mons, Place du Parc, 23 7000 Mons, Belgium Website | E-Mail Interests: nanocomposites; polymer blends; bioplastics; biodegradation; macromolecular chemistry; catalysis, stimuli-sensitive polymers; nanostructurized coatings
Dr. Stefano Farris Department of Food, Environmental and Nutritional Sciences, Packaging Division, Milan State University, via Celoria 2, Milan 20133, Italy Website | E-Mail Interests: biopolymer coatings; food packaging; gas barrier coatings; nanostructured coatings, nanocomposite coatings; surface activation of polymers Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue: Food and Beverage Packaging Coatings
Special Issue: Food and Beverage Packaging Coatings 2017
Prof. Dr. James M. Fitz-Gerald Department of Materials Science & Engineering, University of Virginia, PO Box 400745, 395 McCormick Road, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4745, USA Website | E-Mail Interests: processing, modeling, and behavior of nanofunctional; electronic materials and their novel contributions to the electronic and biomedical communities
Dr. Daniel Gallego-Perez Davis Heart and Lung Research Institute, 473 West 12th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210-1252, USA E-Mail Interests: biomaterials; micro/nanotechnology; regenerative/reparative medicine
Dr. Mazeyar Parvinzadeh Gashti PRE Labs Inc., Kelowna, BC V1V 2X8, Canada Website | E-Mail Interests: application of biomaterials for controlling drug delivery of composites, particles and coatings; preparation of composite materials and particles for energy storage and conversion; preparation of inorganic crystals in different polymeric gels, bone and cartilage tissue regeneration; surface coating of CNT with various monomers; graft polymerization on clay and kaolin minerals for applying on textiles and polymers; surface characterization of polymer composites, interaction of polymers and different additives in polymer blends, UV photocatalysis reactions on polymer nanocomposites
Prof. Dr. Steven M. George Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, University of Colorado, 215 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309-0215, USA Website | E-Mail Interests: atomic layer deposition (ALD); molecular layer deposition (MLD); surface chemistry; growth and properties of thin films; nucleation of thin film growth; multilayers and nanolaminates; flexible films; various applications of ALD and MLD; gas diffusion barriers on polymers; nanostructure engineering and coating of nanoparticles
Prof. Dr. Julie M. Goddard Department of Food Science, 364 Stocking Hall, Cornell University Ithaca, NY 607-255-8622, USA Website | E-Mail
Dr. Silvia Gross Istituto per l'Energetica e le Interfasi, IENI-CNR, 35131- Padova, Italy; Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche, University of Padova, Via Marzolo, 1, 35131- Padova, Italy Website | E-Mail Interests: organic-inorganic hybrid materials; inorganic materials; inorganic coatings; sol-gel; hybrid coatings; surface characterisation Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue: Advances in Functional Hybrid Materials
Special Issue: Advances in Functional Inorganic Coatings
Prof. Dr. Robert B. Heimann Am Stadtpark 2A, D-02826 Goerlitz, Germany E-Mail Interests: thermally sprayed coatings; cold gas dynamically sprayed coatings; bioceramic coatings; wear- and corrosion-resistant coatings
Prof. Dr. Peng Jiang Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA Website | E-Mail Interests: antireflection/anti-glare coatings, organic-inorganic nanocomposites, biomimetics, photonic crystal coatings, smart coatings for energy efficient buildings, metal coatings for plasmonics, scalable nanofabrication, shape memory polymers
Dr. Christopher J. Kloxin University of Delaware, Department of Materials Science and Engineering & Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, 150 Academy Street, Newark, DE 19716, USA Website | E-Mail Interests: photopolymerization; rheology; monomer and polymer synthesis; covalent adaptable networks; self-healing materials; and stimuli responsive polymers
Dr. Claudio Lantieri Department of Civil, Chemical, Environmental, and Materials Engineering, Università di Bologna, Viale del Risorgimento 2- 40136 Bologna, Italy Website | E-Mail Interests: road mainteneance; safety; road materials; skid resistance and surface characteristics of road pavement Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue: Low Environmental Impact Coatings for Road Pavements
Dr. Linshu Liu Eastern Regional Research Center, Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, 600 E. Mermaid Lane, Wyndmoor, PA 19038, USA Website | E-Mail Interests: surface modification; active packaging; biopolymer; controlled release; gut microbiota
Prof. Dr. Eric Loth Rolls-Royce Commonwealth Professor, Chair of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and Principal of the International Residential College, University of Virginia, 122 Engineer’s Way PO Box 400746, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4746, USA Website | E-Mail Interests: nano-composite spray coatings;superhydrophobic coatings
Dr. Luca Lusvarghi Department of Engineering "Enzo Ferrari", University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Via Pietro Vivarelli, 10, Modena 41125, Italy Website | E-Mail
Dr. Luca Magagnin Dipartimento di Chimica, Materiali ed Ingegneria Chimica "G. Natta", Politecnico di Milano,Via Mancinelli, 7 - 20131 Milano, Italy Website | E-Mail
Prof. Dr. Ir. Anibal Maury-Ramirez Civil and Industrial Engineering Department, Engineering Faculty, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Cali, Calle 18 # 118-250, Cali, Colombia Website | E-Mail Interests: development and characterization of photocatalytic; hydrophilic or hydrophobic coatings; with particular emphasis on coatings which can develop air-purifying and self-cleaning properties on building materials Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue: Photocalytic Coatings for Air-Purifying, Self-Cleaning and Antimicrobial Properties
Dr. Maria Miritello CNR-IMM MATIS, Via Santa Sofia 64, Catania I-95123, Italy E-Mail Interests: CVD and sputter deposition; thin films, structural and optical characterization; materials for Si microphotonics and energy; semiconducting nanostructures
Prof. Dr. María J. Mosquera TEP-243 Nanomaterials Group, Physical-Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, Campus Universitario, Puerto Real 11510 Cadiz, Spain Website | E-Mail Interests: nanostructured materials; surfactant-synthesized materials; sol-gel route; hydrophobic and superhydrophobic coatings; photoactive coatings with self-cleaning properties; consolidant materials; application on building materials; structure and texture characterization by TEM, SEM, AFM, nitrogen physisorption and mercury porosimetry; surface properties study (static and dynamic contact angle evaluation); durability studies (climatic chambers)
Dr. Günter Motz Ceramic Materials Engineering, University of Bayreuth, D-95447 Bayreuth, Germany Website | E-Mail Interests: preceramic polymers based polymer and ceramic coatings; organic-inorganic hybrid materials; hybrid coatings; particle filled coatings; functionalized coatings; characterization
Prof. Dr. Pedro Neto Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Coimbra, POLO II, 3030-788 Coimbra, Portugal Website | E-Mail Interests: coatings application technology; manufacturing; industrial robotics; AI; pattern recognition
Dr. Michael Nolan Thin Film Simulation, Tyndall National Institute, UCC, Lee Maltings, Dyke Parade, Cork, Ireland Website | E-Mail Interests: density functional theory; metal oxides; TiO2; Ceria; interfaces; catalysis; photocatalysis; surfaces; thin films; defects; adsorption
Dr. Mario Pagliaro Sicily's Solar Pole and Istituto per lo Studio dei Materiali Nanostrutturati, CNR, via U. La Malfa 153, 90146 Palermo, PA, Italy Website | E-Mail Interests: nanochemistry; solar energy; heterogeneous catalysis for fine chemicals; sol-gel materials; glycerol; biorefinery; microencapsulation; helionomics; building integrated photovoltaics; sustainable development; LED lighting; energy management
Prof. Dr. Tayhas R. Palmore Brown School of Engineering, Box D, 182 Hope Street, Providence, RI 02912, USA Website | E-Mail
Dr. Lluís Palou Pathology Laboratory, Postharvest Technology Center (CTP), Valencian Institute for Agricultural Research (IVIA), Apartat Oficial, 46113 Montcada, Valencia, Spain Website | E-Mail Interests: fresh horticultural produce; citrus; postharvest pathology; integrated disease management; antimicrobial edible coatings
Prof. Dr. Wei Pan State Key Laboratory of New Ceramics and Fine Processing, School of Materials Science & Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China E-Mail
Prof. Dr. Miriam Rafailovich Materials Science & Engineering Department, Stony Brook University, Room 314 Old Engineering, Stony Brook, New York, 11794-2275, USA Website | E-Mail Interests: polymer coatings; nanocomposite coatings; biomaterials; cell surface interactions; X-ray/neutron reflectivity
Dr. Jeff Rao Department of Manufacturing and Materials, Cranfield University, Cranfield, Bedfordshire, MK43 0AL, UK E-Mail Interests: material science and nanotechnology; thin films; magnetron sputtering deposition; functionalized nanoscale and nanostructured materials and surfaces; self-cleaning thin film coatings; functional surfaces
Prof. Dr. Antonella Rossi Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche e Geologiche, Università degli Studi di Cagliari, S.S. 554 bivio per Sestu, I - 09042 - Monserrato (Cagliari), Italy E-Mail Interests: surface modifications; surface chemistry; surface analysis (small-area XPS, ARXPS, AES, imaging-XPS, applied to passivation, corrosion, tribochemistry); ionic liquids; environmental chemistry and cultural heritage
Prof. Dr. Brian W. Sheldon School of Engineering, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA Website | E-Mail Interests: formation and mechanical behavior of advanced ceramic materials, particularly thin films and coatings; electrode materials for Li ion batteries; nanocomposites; protective coatings; materials for MEMS; oxides for sensors and fuel cells
Dr. Clara Silvestre Istituto per i Polimeri, Compositi e Biomateriali (IPCB/CNR), Via Campi Flegrei, 34 - 80078 Pozzuoli, Napoli, Italy E-Mail Interests: polymers; copolymers; Polymer based systems (polymer blends, polymer composites, polymer nanocomposites); structure-properties-processing relationships; polymer micro/nanocomposites for food packaging applications
Prof. Dr. Andrea Simone Department of Civil, Chemical, Environmental, and Materials Engineering, Università di Bologna, Viale del Risorgimento 2- 40136 Bologna, Italy Website | E-Mail Interests: road mainteneance; safety; road materials; skid resistance and surface characteristics of road pavement Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue: Low Environmental Impact Coatings for Road Pavements
Prof. Dr. Charles C. Sorrell School of Materials Sci. & Eng., UNSW Australia, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia E-Mail Interests: ceramic materials, processing, characterisation, and analyses; photocatalysis; phase equilibria; biomedical materials; cements
Prof. Dr. Mark D. Soucek Department of Polymer Engineering, College of Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering, The University of Akron, Akron, OH 44325, USA Website | E-Mail Interests: latexes; powder coatings; uv-curable powder coatings; kinetic and reaction mechanism studies of crosslinkers for coatings; protective space coatings; high solids and water-reducible alkyds; uv-curable coatings; inorganic/organic hybrid coatings; coatings from renewable resources; auto-oxidative curing mechanism of drying oils; plasma deposition of high performance coatings; corrosion resistant polyurethane coatings Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue: Coatings from Renewable Resources
Prof. Dr. Yuri M. Strzhemechny Department of Physics and Astronomy, Texas Christian University, TCU Box 298840, Fort Worth, TX 76129, USA Website | E-Mail Interests: nanoscale oxides; optoelectronic properties of surfaces and interfaces; physics and chemistry of defects; surface photovoltage spectroscopy
Prof. Dr. Maria Cristina Tanzi Biomaterials Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering 'G. Natta', INSTM Local Unit Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy Website | E-Mail Interests: biomaterials; polymers; scaffolds; hydrogels, surface modification; mechanical and dynamic-mechanical properties; Infrared Spectroscopy; cell-material interactions
Dr. Alexander Tolstoguzov Association for Innovation and Development of FCT (NOVA.ID.FCT), Campus de Caparica, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal E-Mail Interests: surface and microanalysis in material science and nanotechnology; coatings and surface engineering; secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS) including ToF-SIMS technique; field ion microscopy (FIM) and atom probe (AP); low-energy ion scattering (LEIS); in-depth profiling with ion-beam sputtering
Prof. Dr. Andriy Voronov Department of Coatings and Polymeric Materials, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58108-6050, USA Website | E-Mail Interests: polymer synthesis and self-assembly; responsive polymer materials including biomaterials and bio-based renewable materials for biomedical and biotechnological applications Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue: Polymer Thin Films
Prof. Dr. Petri M.J. Vuoristo Surface Engineering Laboratory, Department of Materials Science, Tampere University of Technology, P.O.Bx 589, FIN-33101 Tampere, Finland Website | E-Mail
Prof. Dr. S. D. Worley Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849, USA E-Mail Interests: antimicrobial polymer coatings, N-halamines, antimicrobials and biocidal materials
Prof. Dr. Limin Wu "Changjiang" Professor of Materials Science, Director of the Advanced Coatings Research Center of Ministry of Education of China, Fudan University, 220 Handan Rd., Shanghai 200433, China Website | E-Mail Interests: colloidal spheres; organic-inorganic hybrid coatings; functional polymer coatings
Prof. Dr. Giovanni Zangari Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Virginia, 395 McCormick Rd, P.O. Box 400745, Charlottesvile, VA 22904-4745, USA Website | E-Mail Interests: electrodeposition of alloys; magnetic films, micro- and nanostructures; materials for energy; electrochemical surface modification; electrochemical anodization and etching; nanoporous metals, oxides and semiconductors; self-assembled monolayers
Prof. Dr. Jingxu (Jesse) Zhu Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada, N6A 5B9 Website | E-Mail Interests: powder coating; coating and coating surface modification; ultrafine powder coating; speciality coatings; pharmaceutical tablet coating; powder handling; fluidization; nano technology and nano coatings; industrial applications of powder coating; coating for automobile industry
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