Publisher's Synopsis
Today, new developments in coatings and surface engineering are being increasingly driven by more stringent environmental regulations, and the need to increase lifetimes of critical components and materials. This proceedings volume contains numerous invited papers which provide an a review of new and emerging topical areas and coating applications. Subjects discussed include corrosion and wear-resistant coatings, biosystems, biocompatibility, and directed-energy-beam (ion/laser/electron) processes.;Coverage includes: comparison of deposition technologies for ion-assisted coating; commercialization of plasma-source ion implantation; recent trends in electroplating; the application and subsequent cross-linking of a biological polymer on aluminum metal; the use of ion-beam surface modification techniques for corrosion protection.;The book is based on a collection of papers from the 1997 TMS Annual Meeting in Orlando, Florida, February 9-13, 1997.
