Introduction - our Springer's surface engineering and corrosion book.

What is it about?

This is the introduction chapter for our Springer book entitled "Corrosion Control and Surface Finishing". In this chapter, we provide background information as to why we decided to launch on this book project. Also we present a general sketch about the organization of the book. Surface finishing technology is actually composed of many processes such as electroplating, electroless plating, hot dip galvanizing, painting, physical vapor deposition (PVD), chemical vapor deposition (CVD), carburizing, nitriding, and so on. Each process has already been described in important axis has been added to the field. It is called Environmental Friendliness. Therefore, we have to establish the new notion and idea very soon so that surface engineer is and researchers, in the near future and beyond, will be able to use them, especially through our effective guidebook. In this chapter we discuss background information about environmental issues and current problems. We also introduce the organization of the book's contents, so that readers can easily find desired information.

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Why is it important?

In this chapter, I showed what kind of surface finishing processes we have now in industrial parts, first of all. And I made clear that materials surface should be an important interface between materials and human environments. Therefore, materials would affect human beings thought materials surfaces in various ways. Corrosion phenomena could be defined as the process where metallic ions affecting human beings' cells positively or negatively would be formed. I would say that the concept should be incorporated into conventional ones to design materials surfaces in the future.

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