New Hard and Superhard Coatings
A special issue of Coatings (ISSN 2079-6412).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2021) | Viewed by 2949
Special Issue Editor
Interests: vapor deposition; hard and superhard coatings; carbon nanostructures; nanocomposite coatings; friction, wear, and corrosion; surface modification, etc.
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We would like to invite you to submit your work to this Special Issue on "New Hard and Superhard Coatings". Surface coating is a key technology for improving the durability and performance of materials. It reduces operating costs, energy consumption, and environmental degradation, and leads to the development of new products. In addition to the bulk properties of the substrates, coated materials can be enhanced to have a range of specific surface properties, such as a low friction coefficient, high resistance to wear, corrosion, and oxidation, high thermal conductivity, and excellent biocompatibility.
With the development of engineering and science in the micro/nano scale, the precise control of the properties of surface coating and its interface with the substrate is becoming increasingly critical in both fundamental scientific researches and applied engineering applications. Vast scientific and technological progress has been achieved on this topic by universities and research institutes all around the world. This progress has been supported by the industrial development of novel characterization and deposition tools. The aim of this Special Issue is to present the latest experimental and theoretical developments in the field, through a combination of original research papers and review articles from leading groups around the world.
Prof. Qiaoqin Yang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Thin films
- New coatings
- Hard
- Superhard
- Nanocomposite
- Interface design
- Interlayers
- Multilayered structure
- Superlattice
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