Editorial

In this issue the effect of NO₃⁻ in NaCl solution on the corrosion protection of AZ91D magnesium alloy coated with silane films is discussed by S. Y. Wang, Q. Li et al. of the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Southwest University, Chongqing, China. Also from China, the effects of Fe additions to a Cr(III) sulphate electrolyte on the composition, morphology, structure and properties of the electrodeposited Cr have been investigated by Y. F. Jiang, F. Z. Yang, and colleagues from Xiamen University, and the use of electrodeposition to fabricate CoNiMnP–BaFe₁₂O₁₉ nanocomposite coatings, and study of their magnetic properties are reported by N. S. Qu and F. Jiao of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

The influence of organic additives on electrodeposition of Co–Cu alloys onto n-Si(100) from sulphate baths is reported by M. R. Khelladi, A. Azizi and their co-workers from Université F. Abbas de Sétif, Algeria, and the electroless deposition of composite coatings using kaolin nanoparticles in a nickel–phosphorus matrix is discussed by K. N. Srinivasan and P. R. Thangavelu (CSIR, Karaikudi).

In addition, Dr Peter Farr’s IMF Gold Medal Lecture, titled fittingly ‘Going the last nanometre’, on the electrochemistry happening across the Helmholtz double layer during cathodic electrodeposition is published in this issue. One of the industry’s oldest processes, cyanide silver plating, is used as an example, and the role played in the mechanisms of levelling and brightening is explored.

Conductivity considerations for tin stannate electrodeposition solutions are discussed by D. R. Gabe and K. Meng, continuing the research theme1^–4 from the Department of Materials, Loughborough University in this potentially important energy saving field for common plating systems.

Editorial Board members

A number of new appointments have been made to the Editorial Board of Transactions which we have no doubt will help strengthen the standing of the journal throughout the surface finishing and engineering field. Each issue in the next year or so will carry a short biography of one or two members to familiarise readers with them and their expertise.

Professor Peter Leisner, FIMF, holds an MSc in Chemistry (1989) and a PhD in Pulse Plating (1992), both from the Technical University of Denmark. In 2001, he received the Swedish degree of Docent in Electronic Production from Linköping University. He has more than 20 years of experience in applied R&D and technology transfer to industry, within surface technology. At present, he is head of the electronics department at SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden, and holds an adjunct professor position in Surface Technology at Jönköping University, Sweden.

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Professor Hideyuki Kanematsu, FIMF, holds a BEng (1981), an MEng (1983) and a PhD in Materials Science and Engineering (1989), all from Nagoya University. He is a fellow of the Institute of Metal Finishing, UK (IMF), the Minerals, Metals & Materials Society, USA (TMS), American Chemical Society (ACS), the Japan Institute of Metals (JIM) and the Iron & Steel Institute of Japan (ISIJ). He is a full professor and the Dean in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, at Suzuka National College of Technology, Suzuka, Mie, Japan, where he leads and carries out research in Environment Materials Engineering and is interested particularly in the interfacial phenomena between organisms and the metallic material surface.

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Clive Larson

Executive Editor