Meet the editor

Prof. Dr. Gurrappa is a senior scientist in the Defence Metallurgical Research Laboratory, Hyderabad, India. He has worked in the area of materials science and nanostructured coatings for more than three decades. Apart from defense, he has been helping different industries to solve corrosion problems by stressing the need to prevent corrosion by adopting different advanced protective techniques. Prof. Gurrappa is recognized globally and has

visited Germany, Japan, France, the USA, the UK, Belgium, the Netherlands, Poland, Singapore, Israel, and Malaysia. He has authored more than 200 publications both internationally and nationally. He delivered a number of invited lectures/talks and keynote addresses in various international/national symposia and has chaired technical sessions. Prof. Gurrappa is a recipient of prestigious fellowships across the globe in recognition of his meritorious contributions. He is also a recipient of the Corrosion Awareness Award and Meritorious Contribution Award by NACE International, India. He has published 11 books/book chapters and edited two books on gas turbines. He is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, London; Andhra Pradesh Akademi of Sciences; and Founder Fellow of the Telangana Academy of Sciences, India.

Contents

Laser-Deposited Films *by Maria Marinescu*

*and Luiz Bezerra Carvalho Jr*

Materials

Technique

*and Tetiana Nenastina*

**Preface III**

**Chapter 1 1**

**Chapter 2 27**

**Chapter 3 47**

**Chapter 4 69**

**Chapter 5 93**

**Chapter 6 111**

Synthesis and Nonlinear Optical Studies on Organic Compounds in

Magnetic Bio-Derivatives: Preparation and Their Uses in Biotechnology *by Mariana Paola Cabrera, David Fernando Morais Neri, Fernando Soria* 

Synthesis, Characterization, and Adsorption Properties of Nanoporous

Composition Electrolytic Coatings with Given Functional Properties *by Gulmira Yar-Mukhamedova, Maryna Ved', Nikolay Sakhnenko* 

Optimization of Surface Roughness of D2 Steels in WEDM using ANN

Surface Science Engineering through Sol-Gel Process *by Cristian Carrera-Figueiras, Yamile Pérez-Padilla,* 

*Manuel Alejandro Estrella-Gutiérrez, Erbin G. Uc-Cayetano, Juan Antonio Juárez-Moreno and Alejandro Avila-Ortega*

*by Rolando Roque-Malherbe and Carlos de las Pozas del Rio*

*by Umesh K. Vates, N.K. Singh, B.P. Sharma and S. Sivarao*
