Start with high-confidence thin films & surfaces books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
Plastics
Imari Walker-Franklin, Jenna Jambeck
Introduction to Surface Engineering and Functionally Engineered Materials
Peter Martin
Analysis and Performance of Fiber Composites
Bhagwan D. Agarwal, Lawrence J. Broutman
Composites With Micro- and Nano-structure
Vladimír Kompiš, Vladimír Kompis
Falling Films in Desalination
Henning Raach
2d and 3d Nanostructures
Jean-Claude Serge Levy, Jean-Claude Serge Lévy
X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy
Paul van der Heide