1. Editorial

   EditorialNotes Pages: 471 - 471

2. Patents-overlooked source of information

   Commentary Pages: 473 - 476

3. Calendar of events

   Events Pages: 477 - 479

4. In the news

   News Pages: 480 - 481

5. News from institutes and research centers around the world

   News Pages: 482 - 492

6. Discussion topics and threads on thermal spray

   ReviewPaper Pages: 493 - 494

7. Selected patents related to thermal spraying

   Announcement Pages: 495 - 500

8. Meet our new colleagues

   OriginalPaper Pages: 501 - 502

9. Corrosion behavior in boiling dilute HCI solution of different ceramic coatings fabricated by plasma spraying

   • Dianran Yan
   • Jining He
   • Yangai Liu

   Technical Note Pages: 503 - 507

10. Effect of grit blasting and spraying angle on the adhesion strength of a plasma-sprayed coating

    • M. F. Bahbou
    • P. Nylén
    • J. Wigren

    Reviewed Papers Pages: 508 - 514

11. Diffusion and phase transformation on interface between substrate and NiCrAlY in Y-PSZ thermal barrier coatings

    • H. Chen
    • Z. Jin
    • K. Zhou

    Reviewed Papers Pages: 515 - 520

12. The characteristics of a low-power-consumption plasma jet and ceramic coatings

    • Yang Gao
    • Lian-Tong An
    • Zhi-Jun Yan

    Reviewed Papers Pages: 521 - 525

13. Long-term carbide development in high-velocity oxygen fuel/high-velocity air fuel Cr₃C₂-NiCr coatings heat treated at 900 °C

    • S. Matthews
    • M. Hyland
    • B. James

    Reviewed Papers Pages: 526 - 536

14. Microstructure characteristics of SiC particle-reinforced aluminum matrix composites by plasma spraying

    • Manchang Gui
    • Suk Bong Kang
    • Kwangjun Euh

    Reviewed Papers Pages: 537 - 543

15. Columnar grain growth of yttria-stabilized-zirconia in inductively coupled plasma spraying

    • In Ha Jung
    • Ki Kwang Bae
    • Son Ki Ihm

    Reviewed Papers Pages: 544 - 553

16. Numerical modeling of short crack behavior in a thermal barrier coating upon thermal shock loading

    • Y. Liu
    • C. Persson
    • S. Melin

    Reviewed Papers Pages: 554 - 560

17. Hot-corrosion behavior of graded thermal barrier coatings formed by plasma-spraying process

    • N. Mifune
    • Y. Harada
    • R. Yamasaki

    Reviewed Papers Pages: 561 - 569

18. Neural computation to predict in-flight particle characteristic dependences from processing parameters in the APS process

    • Sofiane Guessasma
    • Ghislain Montavon
    • Christian Coddet

    Reviewed Papers Pages: 570 - 585

19. Effect of particle morphology on flow characteristics of a composite plasma spray powder

    • Malcolm K. Stanford
    • Daniel Eylon
    • Christopher DellaCorte

    Reviewed Papers Pages: 586 - 592