Coatings, Volume 15, Issue 8

Ice accretion on critical transportation infrastructure presents serious operational risks and economic challenges, highlighting the need for sustainable anti-icing solutions. This study develops a strong PDMS-based composite coating on aluminum by i...

To investigate the effect of laser cleaning on the chromium plating of steel tyre moulds, a solid-state laser with an average power of 500 W was used as the cleaning light source. By varying the energy density and the number of pulses applied to the...

Slurry-based additive manufacturing (AM) enables the fabrication of dense and complex ceramic components through the layer-by-layer deposition of high-solid-content slurries. However, the reliable formation of uniform, defect-free slurry layers remai...

To address the issues of numerous influencing factors on material quality, difficulty in determining the optimal mix proportion, and the need to clarify the formation mechanism when foam concrete is used as an internal mold for prefabricated componen...

Plasma nitriding is a thermo-chemical treatment widely used to improve the tribological properties of austenitic stainless steel, due to the formation of an expanded austenite layer, which presents increased hardness. Although low-temperature plasma...

To ensure the mechanical performance of gas turbine hollow blades under high-temperature conditions, the application of aluminide high-temperature protective coatings on the inner gas flow channel surfaces of hollow blades via chemical vapor depositi...

Metal nitride coatings have been considered as a promising approach to improve the performance of metal bipolar plates for proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs). In this study, NbNx coatings with three different ratios of N2/Ar (1:2, 1:1 and 3...

This study addresses the need for efficient photoelectric materials by fabricating Indium-doped tin sulfide (SnS-In)/titanium dioxide (TiO2) heterostructure thin films via radio frequency (RF) magnetron sputtering. We systematically investigated the...

Sustainable production and material recycling as well as minimising energy input are the most important challenges of modern production engineering. Despite the accelerating development of incremental shaping technologies, machining is still an indis...

Current research on foamed lightweight soil primarily focuses on mechanical properties and durability, with few studies addressing its hydraulic characteristics and internal pore structure in road reconstruction applications. However, the material&rs...