Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Progress in EBC Development for Silicon-Based, Non-Oxide Ceramics -- Fabrication of Slurry Based Y-Si-Al-O Environmental Barrier Coating on the Porous Si3N4 Ceramics -- Creep and Environmental Durability of Environmental Barrier Coatings and Ceramic Matrix Composites under Imposed Thermal Gradient Conditions -- Dynamic Oblique Angle Deposition of Nanostructures for Energy Applications -- Photoinduced Hydrophilicity and Photocatalytic Properties of Nb2O5 Thin Films -- Hard Nanocomposite Coatings: Thermal Stability, Protection of Substrate against Oxidation, Toughness and Resistance to Cracking -- Preparation of Epitaxially Grown Cr-Si-N Thin Films by Pulsed Laser Deposition -- Influence of Oxygen Content on the Hardness and Electrical Resistivity of Cr(N,O) Thin Films -- Nanocomposite MO-CU-N Coatings Deposited by Reactive Magnetron Sputtering Process with a Single Alloying Target -- Customized Coating Systems for Products with Added Value from Development to High Volume Production -- A Study on the Improvement of the Service Life of Shaft-Bushing Tribo-Systems by Plasma Sulfur Nitrocarburing Process -- Microstructural Characterisation of Porous TiO2 Ceramic Coatings Fabricated by Plasma Electrolytic Oxidation of Ti -- Author Index.