Friction and Lubrication of Engineering Coatings and Materials
A special issue of Coatings (ISSN 2079-6412). This special issue belongs to the section "Tribology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 October 2025 | Viewed by 57
Special Issue Editor
Interests: polymer-based coatings; nanomaterials; interface design; tribology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to invite you to submit a manuscript to this Special Issue on “Friction and Lubrication of Engineering Coatings and Materials”. Tribology contributes to every facet of our daily life and to industrial production. Lubricating coatings/technologies are increasingly used in friction moving systems/parts of mechanical equipment due to their advantages of low friction, good chemical stability, ease of preparation. Generally, lubricating coatings refer to polymer-based coatings, ceramic-based coatings, carbon-based films/coatings, hybrid coatings, and so on. The preparation method, microstructure, and properties of these coatings vary. Moreover, the variety of friction operation conditions, such as heavy load, high speed, high temperature, water environment, etc., make the friction and wear failure behaviours and corresponding wear mechanisms more complex. Therefore, it is of great significance to develop and study the tribological characteristics of various coatings using experiments or theoretical simulation to promote their wide application in the field of tribology.
We aim to share recent progress in various lubricating coatings, and welcome original articles, reviews, and technical notes. Topics of interest mainly include the following:
- New design and fabrication methods of polymer/ceramic/carbon-based lubricating coatings;
- Microstructural analysis of coatings and its correlation with friction behaviours;
- Advanced characterization methods for the tribological behaviours of coatings;
- The relationship between failure/wear mechanisms and sliding conditions.
- Experiments or theoretical study of friction and wear models.
- The relationship between tribological behaviours and environments.
Dr. Beibei Chen
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- polymer/ceramic/carbon-based coatings
- hybrid coatings
- microstructure
- lubricating
- wear
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