**Meet the editor**

Dr Feng Shi is an associate professor in College of Physics and Electronics, Shandong Normal University, P.R.China, whose research addresses novel founctional materials with an eye toward practical applications, i.e., microwave dielectric ceramics - bulk ceramics as well as ceramic thin films. In the past 5 years he has published more than 40 papers in ceramics: in Applied Spectros-

copy Reviews, Dalton transactions, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, Applied Surface Science, Journal of Materials Science-Materials in Electronics and International Journal of Materials Research. Presently, Feng Shi is the reviewer of many journals like Cryst. Growth & Des.; J. Am. Ceram. Soc.; J.Colloid Interf. Sci.; J. Nanopart. Res.; J. Raman Spectrosc.; Curr. Nanosci.; Mater. Sci. Eng. B; and Mater. Sci. Semicon. Proc.

Contents

**Preface IX**

Zhu Weidong

Chapter 2 **Ceramic Coatings Obtained by** 

M. Federica De Riccardis

**Part 2 Physical Deposition Process 69**

Chapter 3 **Magnetron Sputtered BG Thin Films:** 

**Approach – Peculiarities of** 

Chapter 4 **Erosion Behavior of Plasma Sprayed** 

**Part 3 Coating Engineering 127** 

Alexandr Lepeshkin

Chapter 6 **Thermal Spraying of Oxide** 

Chapter 5 **Investigations of Thermal Barrier**

N. Krishnamurthy, M.S. Murali, B. Venkataraman and P.G. Mukunda

**Coatings for Turbine Parts 129**

Martin Erne and Daniel Kolar

**Ceramic and Ceramic Metallic Coatings 167** 

**An Alternative Biofunctionalization** 

George E. Stan and José M.F. Ferreira

**Alumina and Calcia-Stabilized Zirconia Coatings on Cast Iron Substrate 99** 

Chapter 1 **Ti-O Film Cathodically-Electrodeposited on the Surface** 

**Electrophoretic Deposition: Fundamentals,**

**of TiNi SMA and Its Bioactivity and Blood Compatibility 3** 

**Models, Post-Deposition Processes and Applications 43**

**Bioglass Sputtering and Bioactivity Behaviour 71** 

**Part 1 EPD Process 1** 
