This book comprehensively reviews assorted types of coatings, their applications, and various strategies employed by several scientists and researchers to fabricate them. Exclusively, the recent progress in computational strategies that are helpful to optimize the best suitable coating formulation before one goes for the real-time fabrication has been discussed in detail. And this book is also intended to shed light on the computational modeling techniques that are used in the characterization of various coating materials. It covers mechanisms, salient features, formulations, important aspects, and case studies of coatings utilized for various applications. The latest research in this area as well as possible avenues of future research is also highlighted to encourage the researchers.
Prof. (Dr.) Akarsh Verma is working as Assistant Professor at the University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun, India. He obtained Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India, and did his postdoctoral research work at Osaka University, Japan, and Brigham Young University, USA. His area of interest is computational mechanics, computational chemistry, quantum mechanics, molecular dynamics, nanocomposites, etc. He has various international fellowships/awards (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Postdoctoral Fellowship, Japan; J. William Fulbright Doctoral Research Fellowship, USA; Early Career Training Grant award for Early Career Researchers from the Communications Materials (Nature Journal); Researcher Development Grant from the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), UK; Excellence in Doctoral Research Award for the Best Ph.D. thesis research work at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee, India; Doctoral Research Scholarship by the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India, and Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Government of India; and PG Scholarship by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), India) to his credit. He has also been recognized by Stanford University's list of the world's Top 2% of the Most-Cited Scientists in Single Year Citation Impact 2020.
Dr. Sushanta K. Sethi is currently working as Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Metallurgical Engineering & Materials Science at IIT Bombay. He completed his Ph.D. in the Department of Polymer & Process Engineering at IIT Roorkee in February 2021. He holds M.Tech. (IIT Kharagpur) in Rubber Technology and B.Tech. (BPUT, Odisha) in Mechanical Engineering. His research interests include self-clean coatings, functional nanomaterials/quantum dots and applications, multi-scale molecular modeling and simulations of polymer materials, and development of novel and industrially significant sustainable polymer composites and nanocomposites, coatings, and adhesives. He has received the Best Doctoral Thesis Award for Polymer & Process Engineering, IIT Roorkee, and Science Technology Engineering and Management (STEM) society.
Prof. Dr. Shigenobu Ogata is working as Full Professor in the Department of Mechanical Science and Bioengineering at Osaka University. He is also Professor of the Elements Strategy Initiative for Structural Materials, Kyoto University. He received Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Osaka University in 1998. He is Editor of Progress in Materials Science (Elsevier). He was Visiting Research Scientist in the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering at MIT 2001-2002 and Research Affiliate at MIT 2003-now. He and his group aim to develop reliable theoretical models for describing various nonlinear multi-scale and/or multiphysics phenomena that appear in solid materials and then to design materials with novel functions and a deformation process controlled at an atomic level in a predictive manner. Some mature and widely accepted models involve amorphous materials, deformation and strength of materials (such as describing the ideal shear strain of different materials and named the maximum shear strain shearability; revealing the formation mechanism of the shear band in metallic glass and amorphous metals), dislocation modeling, diffusion modeling, constitutive model, fundamental algorithms, structural materials, and nanostructure. His awards include Japanese Society of Mechanical Engineers (JSME) Young Engineer Award (2004); Japanese Society of Materials Science (JSMS) Award for Promising Researcher (2005); JSME Medal for Outstanding Paper (2007); The Japan Institute of Metals Best Paper Awards (Materials Physics 2010, Engineering Materials 2014, Mechanics 2017, Materials Physics 2021); Lee Hsun Lecture Award of Institute of Metal Research, China (2014); JSME Computational Mechanics Division, Computational Mechanics Achievement Award (2015); and JSMS Award for Academic Contribution (2016).
阿卡什·維爾瑪教授（博士）目前擔任印度德拉敦石油與能源研究大學的助理教授。他在印度羅克希工程技術學院獲得機械工程博士學位，並在日本大阪大學和美國楊百翰大學進行了博士後研究。他的研究興趣包括計算力學、計算化學、量子力學、分子動力學、納米複合材料等。他擁有多項國際獎學金/獎項，包括日本科學促進會（JSPS）博士後獎學金、美國J. William Fulbright博士研究獎學金、來自《自然》期刊的通訊材料早期研究者早期職業培訓獎、英國皇家化學學會（RSC）的研究者發展獎、印度羅克希工程技術學院最佳博士論文研究工作的卓越博士研究獎、印度政府科學與技術部（DST）及人力資源發展部（MHRD）提供的博士研究獎學金，以及印度全國技術教育委員會（AICTE）的研究生獎學金。他還被斯坦福大學列入2020年全球前2%最被引用科學家的名單。
蘇尚塔·K·塞提博士目前在印度孟買的羅克希工程技術學院冶金工程與材料科學系擔任博士後研究員。他於2021年2月在羅克希工程技術學院的聚合物與工藝工程系完成博士學位。他擁有印度卡拉格普爾工程技術學院的橡膠技術碩士學位和奧迪沙邦立大學的機械工程學士學位。他的研究興趣包括自清潔塗層、功能性納米材料/量子點及其應用、多尺度聚合物材料的分子建模與模擬，以及新型和工業上重要的可持續聚合物複合材料和納米複合材料、塗層和粘合劑的開發。他曾獲得羅克希工程技術學院聚合物與工藝工程最佳博士論文獎和科學技術工程與管理（STEM）學會的獎項。
小形信夫教授（博士）目前在大阪大學機械科學與生物工程系擔任正教授。他同時也是京都大學結構材料元素戰略倡議的教授。他於1998年在大阪大學獲得機械工程博士學位。他是《材料科學進展》（Elsevier）的編輯。2001年至2002年，他在麻省理工學院核科學與工程系擔任訪問研究科學家，並自2003年至今擔任麻省理工學院的研究附屬。他和他的團隊旨在開發可靠的理論模型，以描述固體材料中出現的各種非線性多尺度和/或多物理現象，並以預測的方式設計具有新功能的材料及其在原子層面受控的變形過程。一些成熟且廣泛接受的模型涉及非晶材料、材料的變形與強度（例如描述不同材料的理想剪切應變並命名為最大剪切應變可剪切性；揭示金屬玻璃和非晶金屬中剪切帶的形成機制）、位錯建模、擴散建模、本構模型、基本算法、結構材料和納米結構。他的獎項包括日本機械工程師學會（JSME）青年工程師獎（2004年）；日本材料科學學會（JSMS）有前途研究者獎（2005年）；JSME優秀論文獎（2007年）；日本金屬學會最佳論文獎（材料物理2010年、工程材料2014年、力學2017年、材料物理2021年）；中國金屬研究所李訓講座獎（2014年）；JSME計算力學分會的計算力學獎。
