1. Overview of thermal barrier coatings for advanced gas turbine engine applications 2. Rare earth tantalite as potential next generation thermal barrier coatings materials 3. Oxidation behaviour and thermally grown oxide  (TGO) layer of thermal barrier coatings 4. Interdiffusion between metallic coatings and single crystal superalloys and the strategies to constrain the interdiffusion 5. Advanced thermal barrier coatings processed by electron beam physical vapor deposition 6. Tailoring the microstructures of thermal Barrier Coatings by atmospheric plasma spray 7. Thermal barrier coatings manufactured by suspension and solution precursor plasma spray- state of the art and recent progress 8. Advanced Thermal barrier coatings prepared by plasma spray- physical vapor deposition 9. Properties and Performance Evaluation of Thermal Barrier Coatings 10. CMAS Interaction with Gas turbines: Towards mitigating solution 11. Methods for improving the life of air-plasma sprayed thermal barrier coatings 12. Failure mechanisms of thermal barrier coatings under thermo-mechanical-chemical loads 13. Advanced thermal & environmental barrier coatings for ceramic matrix composites

Includes coverage of emerging materials, such as rare-earth doped ceramics Presents the latest on plasma spray-physical vapor deposition and suspension (solution precursor) Discusses the degradation of TBCs caused by CMAS attack and its protection Looks at thermally environmental barrier coatings, interdiffusion and diffusion barrier