Surface and Coatings Technology is an international archival journal publishing scientific papers on surface and interface engineering to modify and improve the surface properties of materials for protection in demanding contact conditions or aggressive environments, or for enhanced functional performance. Contributions range from original scientific articles concerned with applied research or direct applications of coatings, to invited reviews of current technology in specific areas. Papers submitted to this journal are expected to be in line with the following aspects in processes, and properties/performance:A. Processes: Physical and chemical vapour deposition techniques, thermal and plasma spraying, surface modification by directed energy techniques such as ion, electron and laser beams, thermo-chemical treatment, wet chemical and electrochemical processes such as plating, sol-gel coating, anodization, plasma electrolytic oxidation, etc., but excluding painting.B. Properties/performance: friction performance, wear resistance (e.g., abrasion, erosion, fretting, etc), corrosion and oxidation resistance, thermal protection, diffusion resistance, hydrophilicity/hydrophobicity, and properties relevant to enhanced functional performance for environmental, energy and medical applications, but excluding device aspects.Articles must go beyond the technical recipe format and gain new understanding and insight based on detailed characterization of coatings and processes. Experimental papers should provide complete information on the process parameters and an appropriate microstructural characterization. Also, papers which include test data should provide full details of the test equipment and parameters. Such papers should report on the synthesis-characterization-properties-performance relationships.Manuscripts must be written in good English and contain a balanced and up-to-date reference list formatted according to the guide-for-authors.

《表面與涂層技術》是一份國際檔案期刊，發表有關表面和界面工程的科學論文，旨在修改和改善材料的表面性能，以保護材料在苛刻的接觸條件或惡劣的環境中，或增強其功能性能。貢獻范圍從與應用研究或涂料直接應用有關的原始科學文章，到邀請對特定領域的當前技術進行評論。提交給本雜志的論文應符合以下幾個方面的流程、性質/性能:A.工藝:物理化學氣相沉積技術、熱噴涂、等離子噴涂、離子、電子、激光束等定向能技術表面改性、熱化學處理、濕化學及電化學鍍、溶膠-凝膠涂層、陽極氧化、等離子電解氧化等工藝，但不包括噴涂。B.性能/性能:摩擦性能、耐磨性(如磨損、侵蝕、微動等)、耐腐蝕和氧化性、熱防護、擴散阻力、親水性/疏水性，以及與增強環境、能源和醫療應用功能性能相關的性能，但不包括設備方面。文章必須超越技術配方格式，并獲得新的理解和洞察力的基礎上，涂料和工藝的詳細表征。實驗論文應提供完整的工藝參數信息和適當的微觀結構表征。此外，包含測試數據的文件應提供測試設備和參數的完整細節。這類論文應該報道綜合-特征-性質-性能的關系。手稿必須用良好的英語寫，并包含一個平衡和最新的參考書目格式根據作者指南。