Advanced Surface Engineering of Metallic Materials for Extreme Environments
A special issue of Coatings (ISSN 2079-6412). This special issue belongs to the section "Surface Characterization, Deposition and Modification".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2026
Special Issue Editors
Interests: coatings; surface engineering; materials design; materials characterization; materials processing; tribology; extreme environments
Interests: corrosion; wear; tribocorrosion; thermal spray coatings; laser cladding; plasma transferred arc (PTA); spray forming
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Metallic materials are often subjected to service in extreme conditions in tribology, manufacturing, industry, energy, defense, and aerospace. These extreme environments can arise from distinct and combined sources of temperature, strain rates, loads, corrosion, wear, erosion, fluid flow, etc. Surface engineering modifications to the base metallic materials have been shown to be a promising solution to extend the performance of these materials in such extreme conditions.
You are invited to contribute to the discussion in this Special Issue in Coatings with manuscripts that will focus on “Advanced Surface Engineering of Metallic Materials for Extreme Environments”.
This Special Issue pursues the dissemination of high-quality research including, but not limited to, the following topics: (i) tooling protection by coatings in manufacturing environments, such as high-pressure aluminum die casting, forging, forming, and machining; (ii) coatings in industry and marine environments; (iii) coatings in energy environments; (iv) coatings in defense environenments; (v) coatings in aerospace environments, such as thermal barrier coatings; and (vi) advanced surface modification by coatings produced by conventional and new deposition techniques, i.e., anodizing and electrochemical techniques, liquid and molten metal-based immersion deposition, powder-based deposition, cold- and thermal-spray deposition, laser-based deposition and surface modification, hardfacing and cladding, plasma-assisted/-enhanced surface modification, and vapor-based deposition techniques.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Nelson Campos Neto
Dr. Guilherme Yuuki Koga
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- surface engineering
- extreme environments
- coatings
- corrosion
- wear
- erosion
- high temperature high strain rate
- manufacturing
- tribology
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