Analysis of Structure and Mechanical Properties of Coatings
A special issue of Coatings (ISSN 2079-6412). This special issue belongs to the section "Plasma Coatings, Surfaces & Interfaces".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 May 2024 | Viewed by 1949
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Coatings and thin films materials have increasingly attracted the attention of scientists and technologists. Due to the unique microstructure, large surface-to-volume ratio, small size, and substrate constraints of thin films and coatings, their mechanical properties differ from those of bulk materials. Understanding the processes that control the mechanical properties of thin films and coatings structures is important in a variety of scientific and technological applications, such as various preparation techniques and structural fracture failure analysis of hard coatings and films. There are many film-substrate structures in MEMS, and their mechanical behavior will be different in the micro-scale structure. Meanwhile, during application, many physical fields are included, such as electric, magnetic, moisture, and thermal fields. Therefore, this is also a multi-field and multi-scale analysis, which will make the problem more complicated.
In this Special Issue, modern trends of hard coating deposition and preparation and analysis of protective coatings, including the correlation of coatings structure and microstructure with their mechanical properties, are highlighted and discussed. We cordially invite you to submit a manuscript for this Special Issue. Full papers, communications, and reviews are all welcome.
Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- preparation of coatings and thin films;
- structure and microstructure analysis of coatings and thin films;
- fracture failure analysis of coatings and thin films;
- simulation and theoretical analysis of coatings and thin film failure;
- application of protective coating.
We look forward to receiving your contributions!
Dr. Huayang Dang
Guest Editor
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- coatings and thin films
- structure analysis
- mechanical properties preparation technology
