In recent years, nanostructured coatings have emerged as technologically important materials. The production and analysis of nanostructured ceramic coatings bring new challenges to the materials science and engineering community. In this review, it is shown how two characteristic features of nanoscale morphology, large internal surface area and metastable phase formation owing to the finite crystal size effect, can be exploited to produce ceramic coatings with unique and useful properties.
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