Advancements in Alternative Coatings to Electrodeposited Hard Chromium
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Thin Films and Interfaces".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 March 2024) | Viewed by 190
Special Issue Editors
Interests: corrosion-resistant coating; wear-resistant coating; micro-alloying surface treatments in carbon steel, alloy steel, and stainless steel
Interests: surface engineering; electrochemistry; electroplating; microarc oxidation; laser cladding; thermal spraying
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Dear Colleagues,
We have the pleasure to invite you to submit a manuscript to the forthcoming Special Issue of Materials entitled “Advancements in Alternative Coatings to Electrodeposited Hard Chromium”.
Electrodeposited hard chromium coatings with a thickness of 1 μm to 500 μm have been extensively employed in industrial fields, such as construction, mining, aerospace, machine tools, automotive transport, and oilfield processing, due to their high wear and corrosion resistance, excellent hardness, and electrical properties as well as moderate cost. Owing to technical problems, environmental concerns and legislation, there is a global need to replace such coatings in industrial applications. The intent of this Special Issue is to provide an overview of new Advancements in Alternative Coatings to Electrodeposited Hard Chromium.
This Special Issue covers a wide range of alternative techniques and rival coating materials, such as: trivalent chromium plating, non-chromium nanocrystalline coatings, electroless deposition, high-velocity oxygen-fuel spraying, plasma spraying, physical vapor deposition, chemical vapor deposition, laser cladding, laser surface alloying, low-temperature surface nitriding, low-temperature carburization etc. Therefore, interactions between the parametric study of the preparation process of alternative coatings, the developed microstructures and their defects, the mechanical and physical properties of the produced composites, and the corrosion and tribological performance in controlled service environments are the topics of particular interest for this Special Issue.
Dr. Jinquan Sun
Dr. Yanpeng Xue
Guest Editors
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