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

Professor Abdel Salam Hamdy Makhlouf is the Vice President of Integrated Mechanical Material Corrosion Consulting (IM2C), Texas, USA, and a Full professor at Central Metallurgical Research and Development Institute. He has 26 years of experience working in R&D with a blend of both industrial and academic leadership as a Professor of Materials Science, and Advanced “nano-bio” Manufacturing Engineering, and Materials Engineering Consultant. He is the recipient of numerous national and international prizes and awards including the Humboldt Research Award for Experienced Scientists, at Max Planck Institute, Germany; Fulbright, NSF, and Dept. of Energy Fellowships, USA; Shoman Award in Engineering Science; and the State Prize of Egypt in Advanced Science and Technology. His research has focused on five critical areas: Energy, Health, Environment, Advanced manufacturing, Advanced materials. Dr. Makhlouf has published over 200 journal articles, as well as 17 books and handbooks for Springer and Elsevier on a broad range of cross‐disciplinary research fields including advanced multifunctional materials, nanotechnology, smart coatings, corrosion, biomaterials, waste/water treatment, and materials for energy applications. Dr. Makhlouf has served as both a Senior Editor and board member of many international journals, as well as reviewer for several international funding agencies in USA, Germany, UK, Qatar, Belgium, EU, Kazakhstan. He is a Consultant/Reviewer for several universities worldwide. Dr. Nedal Abu-Thabit holds a Ph.D. in chemistry with specialization in polymer chemistry. Currently, Dr. Nedal is an associate professor in the Chemical & Process Engineering Technology department at Jubail Industrial College. Since 2013, he holds the position of the Program Director for Polymer Engineering Technology major. Dr. Nedal has published more than 20 research articles and reviews in refereed journals, 5 book chapters and 2 patents. His research interests in the areas of polymer synthesis, polymer post-functionalization, synthesis of functional polyelectrolytes for fuel cells applications, water sterilization using nanomaterials, synthesis of electrically conducting polymers for sensing applications, preparation of conductive hydrogels and conductive textiles; and isolation of biopolymers from natural sources. In addition, Dr. Nedal has contributed with many articles in the area of educational polymer chemistry.

• Part 1: Introduction1. Fundamentals of smart coatings and thin films: synthesis, deposition methods and industrial applicationsPart 2: Smart Multifunctional Coatings for Corrosion Protection2. Recent Development in Smart Coatings for Steel Alloys and Their Impact in Steel Industry and Applications3. Multifunctional and smart organic-inorganic hybrid sol-gel coatings for corrosion protection application4. Self-healing Corrosion Protective Coatings in Transportation Industries5. Multi-functional coatings based on smart nano-containers6. Nano porous aluminum oxide film: Applications and Advances7. Intelligent anticorrosion saline enabled self-healing coatings8. Smart Coatings for Magnesium Alloys9. Smart Coatings on Magnesium Alloys in Transportation Industries10. Smart hybrid coatings for corrosion protection applications11. A new generation carbon particles embedded DLC coatingsPart 3: Smart Coatings & Thin Films for Biomedical Applications12. Shape Memory Coatings and Thin Films for Industrial and Medical Applications13. 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 Films15. Bioinspired Coatings and Materials16. Chitosan as anti-corrosion smart coating for aluminum alloysPart 5: Smart Self-cleaning Coatings with Controlled Wettability17. Multifunctional layers with nanocontainers of self-healing, self-cleaning and slow release activity18. Superhydrophobic and Superamphiphobic Smart Surfaces19. Smart superhydrophobic anticorrosive coatingsPart 6: Smart Antibacterial Coatings & Thin Films20. Applications and Challenges of Antibacterial Smart Coatings21. Cationic Polymers Based Antibacterial Smart CoatingsPart 7: Smart Electrically Conductive Coatings & Thin Films22. Electrically Conducting Polyaniline Smart Coatings and Thin Films for Industrial Applications23. Nanomaterials for Flexible Transparent Conductive Films and Optoelectronic Devices