Technology of Coating Deposition

Bioceramic Coatings for Medical Implants Trends and Techniques, First Edition. 

Habibovic et al., 2002 Kokubo, Kim and Kawashita, 2003 Kokubo and Yam-aguchi, 2011), formation of thin calcium phosphate films on functionalised surfaces (for example Bunker et al., 1994 Tanahashi, Yao and Kokubo, 1995 Layrolle, 2011), laser surface engineering (Kurella, 2005), plasma electrolytic oxidation (PEO, Yerokhin et al., 1999 Yerokhin, 2005 Curran and Clyne, 2005 Wang, Fu and Chen, 2012), pulsed laser deposition (PLD) (Wang et al., 1997 Koch et al., 2007 Man et al., 2009) and several other less frequently applied techniques. 

Electrochemical methods applied to deposit calcium phosphate coatings require an electrical conductor as a substrate as well as post-depositional heat treatment (Abe, Kokubo and Yamamuro, 1990). Hence, they are not well suited to coat non-conducting ceramics and heat sensitive polymers. 

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