Novel Insights into Tribological Coatings
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials Science and Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2019) | Viewed by 2118
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
I’m pleased to announce this Special Issue of the MDPI journal Applied Sciences devoted to “Novel insights into tribological coatings”.
Tribology, as a science, has reached maturity after more than fifty years of basic and applied research. In this scenario, thin coatings have played a major role in the development of solutions for new technological problems as well as in the understanding of friction and wear mechanisms. This Special Issue is focused on new challenges in tribology that can be met by the design of new coatings based on both physical and chemical methods.
On one hand, extreme technological problems such as those of components operating at high temperature and in oxidizing environments can be addressed by using new ternary and quaternary PVD coatings based on new metal oxides. Nano-multilayered PVD coatings can also be an option for these sort of problems, as well as for machining inserts working against new abrasive materials.
On the other hand, nanoparticles embedded in thin coatings can also provide new functions when multiple functions are required, such as for low-friction, self-lubricating, and wear-resistant coatings, or biocompatible, low-wettability, and low-friction coatings. A nearby field is that of green tribology, where the suppression or reduction of the consumption of lubricants is a major goal.
Finally, soft tribology and, in particular, biotribology are a huge emerging field that will require the development of new ideas and coating strategies over the next two decades.
Prof. Dr. Rafael Rodríguez
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- High-temperature tribology
- Nano-multilayered PVD coatings
- Nano-particle-reinforced coatings
- Self-lubricating coatings and green tribology
- Biotribology and soft tribology
