Functional Surface Modification Using Concentrated Energy Flows
A special issue of Coatings (ISSN 2079-6412). This special issue belongs to the section "Laser Coatings".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2024) | Viewed by 571
Special Issue Editors
Interests: magnetron sputtering; materials science of thin films and coatings (hard wear-resistant, heat-resistant, low-friction, tribological coatings, etc.); transition metal ceramics (borides, carbides, etc.)
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2. Department of Applied Material Science and TCM, Sumy State University, Rimsky Korsakov St. 2, 40007 Sumy, Ukraine
Interests: surface modification using concentrated energy flows; electro-spark alloying; materials science; functional coating (heat-resistant, corrosion-resistant, wear-resistant, running-in coating etc.)
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Modern coatings are rather diverse, both in terms of properties and methods of production. The main reason for the development of new and advanced coating technologies is the desire to increase the durability of products. Optimization of a coating system involves an appropriate choice of the coating composition, structure of the materials, porosity and adhesion, technology, compatibility of substrates and coating materials, availability and cost of the coating materials, and the possibility of their renewal and repair.
A promising direction of structural modification of the surface layers is processing with concentrated high-energy flows of energy and matter (CEF), such as laser technologies, electron-beam processing, ion-beam processing, ion implantation, vacuum-plasma, pulse-plasma processing, electrospark alloying, etc.
Unlike traditional technologies for surface treatment of materials, CEF has its own specifics and features; in some cases, it can replace traditional technologies for modifying surface layers due to higher efficiency, environmental friendliness and uniqueness of the results obtained. Therefore, it is relevant to study the features of coating formation using CEF.
The current Special Issue is open for papers focusing on the following concepts:
- Deep physicochemical analysis of the coatings microstructure obtained with CEF;
- Theoretical and experimental studies of the behaviour of the microstructure during surface modification with CEF;
- Evaluation of the effect of changing the microstructure on the properties of the coating;
- Creation of coatings via combined methods based on CEF.
Dr. Tomasz Mościcki
Dr. Oksana Gaponova
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- laser
- ion beams
- electron beams
- coating
- texturing
- microstructure
- nanostructure
- properties
- tribology
- simulation models
