Nanostructured Films and Coatings

Nanostructured films and coatings possess unique properties due to both size and interface effects. They find many applications in areas such as electronics, catalysis, protection, data storage, optics and sensors. The focus of the present book is on synthesis and processing; advanced characterization techniques; properties (including mechanical, chemical, electronic, thermal, catalytic, and magnetic); modelling of interlayer and intralayer interfaces; and applications.

1. Gas phase synthesis of nanostructured films and coatings.- 2. Electrodeposited nanostructured films and coatings: synthesis, structure, properties and applications.- 3. Nanostructured carbon coatings.- 4. Semiconductor quantum dot heterostructures (growth and applications).- 5. Chemical processing of nanostructured coatings.- 6. Nanostructured coatings of inner surfaces in microporous matrixes.- 7. Electroless deposited nanostructured NiCo films.- 8. Nanoscaled magnetic electrodeposited structures on the basis of ion group metals: preparation, structure, magnetic and magnetoresistive properties.- 9. Nanodispersed refractory compounds in the electrodeposited metal coatings.- 10. Thermal sprayed nanostructured hard coatings.- 11. Synthesis and characterization of nanocomposite coatings.- 12. Nano-engineered thermoelectric coating.- 13. Photoluminescence from pressure-annealed nanostructured silicon dioxide and nitride films.- 14. CoPt and FePt thin films for high density recording media.- 15. Unidirectional anisotropy in manganite based ferromagneticantiferromagnetic multilayers.- 16. Surface characterization of nanostructured coatings: study of nanocrystalline SnO2 gas sensors.- 17. Phase differentiation and characterization of nanostructured composites by synchrotron radiation techniques.- 18. X-ray study of microstructure and grain boundary statistics in nanocrystalline materials.- 19. XRD strain and stress determination in nanostructured films and coatings.- 20. Interfaces in nanostructured films and coatings.- 21. Nanoscale elastic properties of dislocations and disclinations.- 22. Study of porous silicon formation and silicon-on-porous silicon epitaxy (computational modelling).- 23. Evolution of phase composition and associated properties in the process of growthof nanostructured films.- 24. Review of fatigue of coatings/substrates.- 25. Nanoindentation /nanoscratching and stress studies in mono-lithic and nanolayered amorphous carbon films.- 26. Formation of nanostructured surface regions under a concentrated load.- 27. Non-destructive mechanical characterisation of mechanical properties of non-homogeneous nanostructured coatings.- 28. High refractive index Si/SiOx based nanocomposites.- 29. Preparation and characterisation of metallic thin films for elec-troluminescent devices based on porous silicon.- 30. Photoelectrochemical behavior of chlorophyll a in thin films.- 31. Lean-burn natural gas engine exhaust remediation using nano-structured catalysts and coatings.- 32. Polymer-layered silicate nanocomposites: emerging scientific and commercial opportunities.- 33. Office of Naval Research initiative on wear resistant nanostructured materials.