Preface vii Introduction ix Progress in EBC Development for Silicon-Based, Non-Oxide Ceramics 1 C.A. Lewinsohn, H. Anderson, J. Johnston, and Dongming Zhu Fabrication of Slurry Based Y-Si-AI-0 Environmental Barrier Coating on the Porous Si3N4 Ceramics 9 Yinchao Liu, Chao Wang, Xuefen Lu, Hongjie Wang Creep and Environmental Durability of Environmental Barrier Coatings and Ceramic Matrix Composites under Imposed Thermal Gradient Conditions 19 Matthew Appleby, Gregory N. Morscher, and Dongming Zhu Dynamic Oblique Angle Deposition of Nanostructures for Energy Applications 31 G.-C. Wang, I.

Bhat, and T.-M. Lu Photoinduced Hydrophilicity and Photocatalytic Properties of Nb205 Thin Films 47 Raquel Fiz, Linus Appel, and Sanjay Mathur Hard Nanocomposite Coatings: Thermal Stability, Protection of Substrate against Oxidation, Toughness and Resistance to Cracking 55 J. Musil Preparation of Epitaxially Grown Cr-Si-N Thin Films by Pulsed Laser Deposition 67 T. Endo, K. Suzuki, A. Sato, T. Suzuki, T.

Nakayama, H. Suematsu, and K. Niihara Influence of Oxygen Content on the Hardness and Electrical Resistivity of Cr(N,0) Thin Films 77 Aoi Sato, Toshiyuki Endo, Kazuma Suzuki, Tsuneo Suzuki, Tadachika Nakayama, Hisayuki Suematsu, and Koichi Niihara Nanocomposite MO-CU-N Coatings Deposited by Reactive Magnetron Sputtering Process with a Single Alloying Target 89 Duck Hyeong Jung, Caroline Sunyong Lee, and Kyoung II Moon Customized Coating Systems for Products with Added Value from Development to High Volume Production 97 T. Hosenfeldt, Y. Musayev, and Edgar Schulz A Study on the Improvement of the Service Life of Shaft-Bushing Tribo-Systems by Plasma Sulfur Nitrocarburing Process 105 Kyoung II Moon, Hyun Jun Park, Hyoung Jun Kim, Jin Uk Kim, and Cheol Wong Byun Microstructural Characterisation of Porous Ti02 Ceramic Coatings Fabricated by Plasma Electrolytic Oxidation of Ti 117 Po-Jen Chu, Aleksey Yerokhin, Allan Matthews, and Ju-Liang He Author Index 129.