Plasma Spray Coatings (Second Volume)
A special issue of Coatings (ISSN 2079-6412). This special issue belongs to the section "Plasma Coatings, Surfaces & Interfaces".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 October 2023) | Viewed by 2933
Special Issue Editor
Interests: surface modification of metals by thermal spraying; materials for medical application; protective coatings of metals for space-based structures; wear-resistant hard metal coatings
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The last decades have witnessed exciting developments in the utilization of thermal plasmas to design or modify a diverse range of materials and engineered coatings and interfaces. At present, plasmas are widely employed to enhance the surface properties of materials without changing their bulk properties. Examples include the food and packaging industry, medicine, electronics, energy harvesting technologies, transportation, and applications in numerous areas of everyday domestic life. Many of these materials, coatings, and interfaces are unique as they cannot easily be derived by conventional manufacturing techniques. This Special Issue aims to bring together advances in the fields of plasma engineering of interfaces, coatings, and structures and their application in various engineering fields.
We invite investigators to contribute research or review articles that will inspire research toward the next generation of plasma-derived materials and their applications. Potential topics include but are not limited to:
- Deposition from plasmas of coatings designed to combat wear and corrosion of engineering structures,
- Plasma functionalization of surfaces,
- Plasma-assisted thin film deposition;
- Plasma etching and surface engineering,
- Plasma electrolytic oxidation (PEO),
- Texturing of surfaces by plasmas,
- Chemical and physical reactions in plasmas,
- Modeling of plasmas and their interaction with materials.
Prof. Dr. Robert B. Heimann
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- plasma-assisted thin film deposition
- plasma etching and surface engineering
- plasma electrolytic oxidation (PEO)
- plasma texturing of surfaces
- plasma-derived nanoscale coatings
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