What is it about?
Treatments to the surfaces of metals as well as other items are very important in most industries. They are used to enhance substrates' appearances and to improve their functions such as reflectivity, hardness and corrosion resistance. This chapter describes some surface finishing processes. It discusses the change from metals to nonmetal substrates. Also the topics of resins, composites, and plastics are introduced.
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Why is it important?
One of the alternative ways to avoid or to overcome environmental regulations would be to give up the use of metals and also to begin the use of nonmetals. This chapter explains some candidates for the future.
Perspectives
As Metallurgist, this chapter brought me a kind of frustration, but actually, organic materials will provide us more broad choice and opportunities to use. That means directly that the application needs many tricks. This chapter will show fundamental aspects for the change from metallic materials to nonmetal materials. We focused on organic materials, particularly.
Professor Hideyuki Kanematsu
National Institute of Technology, Suzuka College
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This page is a summary of: Change from Metals to Nonmetals, January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/978-4-431-55957-3_24.
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