Protective Coatings for Complex Technical Surfaces
A special issue of Coatings (ISSN 2079-6412). This special issue belongs to the section "Corrosion, Wear and Erosion".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 73
Special Issue Editors
Interests: microstructural and functional coating analyses of thermal sprayed coatings in various industrial areas; e.g. in the field of LH2 tanks; corrosion protection; steel structures; sustainable coatings; additively produced coatings by thermal spraying
Interests: research and development of ceramic; hard metal and metal coatings by various thermal coating processes and their industrial applications; thermal spraying with suspensions from the development of appropriate hardware components to the tailored coating solutions and technology transfer
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Interests: thermal spraying; thermochemical treatment; heat treatment; spark plasma sintering; laser cladding; high-entropy alloys; stainless steel
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Interests: thermal spraying; hardfacing; powders; additive manufacturing; diagnostics
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The demand for increasingly high-performance and efficient, complex technical systems is placing increasing demands on surfaces. Thermal coating technologies, including thermal and kinetic spraying, as well as cladding, offer unrivaled flexibility material-wise and scalability in terms of coating processes, making them essential for meeting these challenging requirements.
Beyond the well-established applications for aviation such as thermal insulation or wear protection, these technologies are also coming into focus in other industrial sectors, such as shipbuilding and steel construction, onshore and offshore wind energy, vehicle construction, agriculture, electronics, and sustainability concepts. Moreover, the use of critical materials, the production of greenhouse gases, and occupational exposure to hazardous substances must be reduced wherever possible, considering ecological and legislative issues.
To address these challenges, novel material combinations, technologies, and test methodologies are required to meet the total of the above-mentioned criteria. This Special Issue, therefore, focuses on protective coatings for complex technical surfaces. Articles on new materials or material combinations and their processing, modified coating technologies and test methods for reducing and testing tribochemical wear, and corrosion and emissions in various industrial sectors are of particular interest to this Special Issue. In addition, contributions on occupational safety and environmental pollution and the footprints of thermal coating processes are welcome.
Dr. Michél Hauer
Dr. Filofteia-Laura Toma
Dr. Thomas Lindner
Dr. Pawel Sokolowski
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- thermal spray
- cladding
- materials
- wear
- corrosion
- emissions
- environmental footprint
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