Table of Contents

Section A: Overview on microbes and viruses
1. Introduction to the microbial world and associated diseases
2. Fungal and Viral pathogens, classification, and associated diseases
3. Various materials surfaces and growth of microbes and viruses on it
4. Identification and culture tests
5. Microbe- and virus-philic surfaces
6. Microbe- and virus-phobic surface coating
7. Industrial environment and microbes/virus growth

Section B: Smart Coatings 
8. Introduction to smart coatings
9. Working principles of various smart coating on microbes/virus growth 
10. Effect of shape responsive coating on microbes/virus growth 
11. Electric responsive coating and microbes/virus growth 
12. Magnetic responsive coating and microbes/virus growth
13. Synthesis techniques of smart coatings
14. Smart coatings and biomimetics 
15. Biomaterials and biomimetics

Section C: Antibacterial, antifungal and Antiviral smart coatings
16. Polymeric antibacterial, antifungal and antiviral coatings
17. Nanotechnology in antibacterial, antifungal and antiviral coatings
18. Nanomaterials based smart coatings for antibacterial, antifungal and antiviral activities 
19. Green antibacterial, antifungal and antiviral coatings
20. Effect of smart coating and durability
21. Hybrid antibacterial, antifungal and antiviral smart coatings

Section D: Methods/standards for characterization of smart coatings
22. Characterization methodologies for smart coating
23. Screening methods to determine antibacterial activity 
24. Molecular Network Approach
25. Gas chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry
26. Physical and mechanical property measurement of antiviral/ antibacterial smart coating
27. Erosion property evaluation of antiviral/ antibacterial smart coating 
28. Chromic property measurement of antiviral/ antibacterial smart coating
29. Current standards and their limitations/concerns for testing the antibacterial activity of smart coatings

Section E: Current and predictable scenario
30. Prediction and optimization of materials surface with respect to bacteria, fungus and virus growth
31. Role of Smart coating to eliminate COVID infection
32. Edible and food safe antiviral and antimicrobial smart coatings
33. Industrialization of antiviral and antimicrobial smart coatings
34. Antibacterial activity of plant extracts smart coating
35. Human safety and environmental concerns of antiviral and antimicrobial smart coatings 
36. Laws and developments to implement antimicrobial coatings

About the Author

Dr. Aditya Kumar received his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Siegen, Germany. His research interests include coating, anti-wetting, functionalized coating, nanotribology, nanotechnology, biotechnology, interfacial phenomena, and materials science. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT-ISM) Dhanbad, India. He is an author and co-author of more than 55 publications in refereed journals. Dr. Ajit Behera is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Metallurgical & Materials Engineering at the National Institute of Technology, Rourkela. He completed his PhD from IIT, Kharagpur, in 2016. He received the National “IEI Young Engineer Award” in 2022, “Yuva Rattan Award” in 2020, “C.V. Raman Award” in 2019, and “young faculty award” in 2017. He has published more than 202 publications including books, book chapters, and journals. Five PhD students were awarded under his supervision, and more than 10 PhD students from his institute/outside the institute are
working on different research projects with him. He has successfully completed 25 industrial/research projects and organized 12 industrial-academia collaborative conferences. Muhammad Bilal is working as an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland. Previously, he served as an assistant/associate Professor at Poznan University of Technology, Poland, and the School of Life Science and Food Engineering, Huaiyin Institute of Technology, Huaian, China. He earned his Ph.D. from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, specializing in bioengineering and applied biotechnology. His main research activities are oriented to Environmental biotechnology, nanotechnology, enzyme engineering, immobilization, chemical modifications, and industrial applications of microbial enzymes, liquid, and solid waste management. He has authored over 700 peer-reviewed articles, 150 book chapters, 25 edited books. Dr. Bilal is the associate editor of Frontiers in Chemical Engineering and Frontiers in Environmental Science (Frontiers), and an editorial board member for several journals. He was listed as a highly cited researcher (Clarivate) in 2021 and holds several "highly cited papers" in WOS. Dr. Ram Gupta is an Associate Professor of Chemistry at Pittsburg State University. He is the Director of Research at the National Institute for Materials Advancement (NIMA). Dr. Gupta has been recently named by Stanford University as being among the top 2% of research scientists worldwide. Before joining Pittsburg State University, he worked as an Assistant Research Professor at Missouri State University, Springfield, MO then as a Senior Research Scientist at North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro, NC. Dr. Gupta’s research spans a range of subjects critical to current and future societal needs including: semiconducting materials & devices, biopolymers, flame-retardant polymers, green energy production & storage using nanostructured materials & conducting polymers, electrocatalysts, optoelectronics & photovoltaics devices, organic-inorganic heterojunctions for sensors, nanomagnetism, biocompatible nanofibers for tissue regeneration, scaffold & antibacterial applications, and bio-degradable metallic implants. Tuan Anh Nguyen is a Senior Principal Research Scientist at the Institute for Tropical Technology, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam. He received a BS in physics from Hanoi University in 1992, a BS in economics from Hanoi National Economics University in 1997, and a PhD in chemistry from the Paris Diderot University, France, in 2003. He was a Visiting Scientist at Seoul National University, South Korea, in 2004, and the University of Wollongong, Australia, in 2005. He then worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate and Research Scientist at Montana State University, United States in 2006-09. In 2012 he was appointed as the Head of the Microanalysis Department at the Institute for Tropical Technology. His research areas of interest include smart sensors, smart networks, smart hospitals, smart cities, complexiverse, and digital twins. He has edited more than 74 books for Elsevier, 12 books for CRC Press, 1 book for Springer, 1 book for RSC, and 2 books for IGI Global. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Kenkyu Journal of Nanotechnology & Nanoscience.