New Materials and New Applications for the Cold Gas Spray Process

Dear Colleagues,

We invite you to submit your original contributions to this Special Issue “New materials and new applications for the Cold Gas Spray process”. A cold spray is a powder-based coating and additive manufacturing (AM) technology that uses a pressurized and heated gas stream to accelerate powder particles at a high speed. Upon hitting the substrate, due to large plastic deformation of particles, material deposition can be obtained. A cold spray allows one to produce dense and oxide-free deposits, presenting many advantages over other thermal spraying and AM techniques, such as high deposition rates, high adhesion strengths, and moderate thermal effects on the substrate. Cold spray technology is assessed for a large variety of materials, including pure metals, alloys, and composite (metal/ceramic) materials. It can be used to achieve new goals in various industrial sectors, and innovative depositing materials represent the core of this Special Issue. We welcome original research papers and review articles representing the state-of-the-art knowledge on the cold spraying of new materials and new applications, covering both academic and industrial aspects. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:

• The cold spraying of high-entropy alloys;
• Advances on cold spray additive manufacturing;
• Improved powders for cold sprays;
• New functional materials obtained by cold spraying;
• Hard-phase dispersed alloys;
• Intermetallic materials.

Prof. Dr. Sergi Dosta
Dr. Francesco Delloro
Guest Editors

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• high-entropy alloys
• Intermetallics
• fuctional materials
• hard-phase dispersed alloys
• cold spray additive manufacturing
• microstructure characterization
• mechanical properties
• corrosion resistance