Fig. 13. Surface micro-textures for enhanced coating adhesion: SEM and schematic representations. (a) Random micro-texture pattern;(b) Regular circular pore array;(c) Inclined hole texture;(d) Hexagonal texture array;(e) Schematic of multi-scale hierarchical bioinspired structure;(f) Comparative schematic of bioinspired micro-texture versus grit-blasted substrate with top coating;(g) Square-grid micro-texture schematic. [