Coating Innovations in Energy-Assisted Deposition
A special issue of Coatings (ISSN 2079-6412). This special issue belongs to the section "Surface Characterization, Deposition and Modification".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 April 2026 | Viewed by 29
Special Issue Editors
Interests: degradation and protection of marine engineering materials, including cavitation erosion, corrosion, and wear of Fe-based amorphous coatings and metal–ceramic coatings; synergistic failure mechanisms under multiphase (liquid–solid–gas) conditions; process optimization of advanced energy-assisted deposition technologies (e.g., thermal spraying, laser-directed energy deposition)
Interests: thermal spray coatings; corrosion, biofouling, wear, and protection of metallic structures in marine environments; strengthening and toughening of metallic materials
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In recent years, with the advancement of industrial technologies, metallic components serving in extreme environments are facing increasingly severe damage. Fabricating protective coatings on these components has emerged as an effective and economical solution to mitigate such damage issues. Energy-assisted deposition refers to a class of advanced coating technologies that utilize external energy inputs (thermal, photonic, kinetic, etc.) to precisely control material melting, acceleration, or chemical reactions, thereby enabling tailored coating fabrication and performance regulation. These techniques have been extensively employed to produce various metallic and cermet coatings that significantly enhance the resistance of engineering components against corrosion, wear, fouling, and other degradation mechanisms.
The energy-assisted deposition family encompasses thermal energy-based processes (e.g., high-velocity oxygen-fuel spraying, plasma spraying, laser cladding), photonic energy-assisted methods (e.g., laser-directed energy deposition, physical vapor deposition), and kinetic energy-driven techniques (e.g., cold spray, electrospark deposition). These technologies have found substantial engineering applications across the aerospace, marine engineering, and energy sectors, demonstrating remarkable improvements in protecting metallic components against extreme environmental challenges including corrosion, wear, cavitation erosion, and biofouling, thereby significantly extending service life and showing tremendous application potential.
This Special Issue will serve as a forum for papers on the following concepts:
- Theoretical and experimental studies on designing and fabricating protective coatings;
- Process parameter optimization for various coating techniques, including additive manufacturing, thermal spraying, and laser/plasma processing;
- High-performance coatings for extreme environments;
- Advanced testing methodologies evaluating coating performance considering mechanical–chemical–electrochemical interactions;
- Other relevant research topics aligned with this Special Issue’s theme.
Dr. Lei Qiao
Prof. Dr. Yuping Wu
Guest Editors
Dr. Xiaoqiang Zhang
Guest Editor Assistant
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Keywords
- energy-assisted deposition coatings
- optimization of coating preparation
- damage behavior and mechanism of protective coatings
- extreme environments
- damage modeling of coatings
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