Substrate is a term used in materials science to describe the base material on which processing is conducted to produce new film or layers of material such as deposited coatings. The Materials Science Tetrahedron, which often also includes Characterization at the center Materials science is an interdisciplinary field involving the properties of matter and its applications to various areas of science and engineering. ...

A typical substrate might be a metal, onto which a coating might be deposited by any of the following processes:

• Coating and printing processes
• Chemical vapor deposition and physical vapor deposition
• Conversion coating

• Anodizing
• Chromate conversion coating
• Plasma electrolytic oxidation
• Phosphate (coating)

• Paint

• Enamel (paint)
• Powder coating
• Industrial coating
• Silicate mineral paint
• Fusion bonded epoxy coating (FBE coating)

• pickled and oiled, a type of plate steel coating.
• Plasma coatings
• Plating

• Electroless plating
• Electrochemical plating

• Polymer coatings, such as Teflon
• Sputtered or vacuum deposited materials
• Enamel (vitreous)

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See also

• List of coating techniques
• Thin-film deposition