Coatings for Wear Resistance: Materials, Manufacturing and Performance
A special issue of Coatings (ISSN 2079-6412). This special issue belongs to the section "Corrosion, Wear and Erosion".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 September 2026
Special Issue Editors
Interests: coatings; composite materials; additive manufacturing; lattice structures; finite element analysis
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Wear is one of the primary causes of material degradation and performance loss in engineering components operating under demanding mechanical, thermal, and environmental conditions. Coatings play a critical role in mitigating wear by enhancing surface properties, extending service life, and enabling the use of lightweight or cost-effective substrates in advanced applications. Continuous developments in coating materials, manufacturing routes, and performance evaluation methods have significantly expanded the design space of wear-resistant systems.
This Special Issue, “Coatings for Wear Resistance: Materials, Manufacturing and Performance”, aims to provide a comprehensive platform for recent scientific and technological advances in coating-based solutions for wear protection. It covers the entire value chain, from materials design and processing to microstructural tailoring, tribological performance, and real-world applications. Particular emphasis is placed on emerging coating materials, innovative manufacturing and deposition techniques, and the integration of coatings with advanced structural concepts and modern manufacturing technologies.
For this Special Issue, we welcome original research articles and high-quality review papers addressing fundamental mechanisms, processing–structure–property relationships, and application-driven performance assessments of wear-resistant coatings. Contributions that bridge experimental studies with modeling, simulation, and data-driven approaches are especially encouraged. Interdisciplinary studies that connect surface engineering with materials science, mechanical engineering, and manufacturing technologies are also within the scope of this Issue.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Wear-resistant metallic, ceramic, polymeric, and composite coatings;
- Advanced coating materials design and functional architectures;
- Thermal spray, PVD, CVD, electrochemical, and hybrid coating processes;
- Coatings for additively manufactured and architected structures;
- Microstructure–wear performance relationships;
- Tribological testing, characterization, and performance evaluation;
- Modeling, simulation, and predictive approaches for coating wear behavior;
We hope this Special Issue will serve as a valuable reference for researchers and practitioners working on advanced coating technologies for wear resistance and surface performance.
Dr. Berkay Ergene
Dr. Çağın Bolat
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- coatings
- additive manufacturing
- wear performance
- lattice structure
- long lifetime
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