Technologies and Processes That Involve Surface Interaction or Successive Coating Processes for Additive Manufacturing
A special issue of Coatings (ISSN 2079-6412). This special issue belongs to the section "Surface Characterization, Deposition and Modification".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2025 | Viewed by 92
Special Issue Editors
Interests: micromanufacturing; additive manufacturing; laser processing; magnesium; surface engineering; medical devices
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The application of additive manufacturing to advanced materials has a central role in addressing innovation by enabling the creation of materials and the customizable additive manufacturing (AM) methods to transform them. AM is driving the fabrication of complex and high-performance structures across industries and recent advances have emerged in aerospace, automotive, biomedical, and marine applications driven by the current state of knowledge of materials, design, manufacture modeling, and metrology. Accordingly, we launch this new Special Issue of Coatings that will collect original research articles. Contributions will focus on advanced materials in additive manufacturing processing, emphasizing their potential applications. The scope of this Special Issue is to serve as a forum for contributions on the following topics:
- Functional gradient materials used in AM applications studying interfacial properties;
- Metal additive manufacturing for lightweight structures, high-strength alloys, and corrosion-resistant materials;
- Biodegradable and biocompatible polymers, electrically conductive polymers, and composites applying surface science;
- Bio-inspired and biomimetic materials using multi-material additive manufacturing or gradient structures and their functional properties;
- Lattice and cellular structures for energy absorption or thermal control;
- Additive manufacturing with smart materials for adaptive structures;
- Nano-enhanced materials with enhanced mechanical, electrical, or thermal properties;
- Coating methods applied to items manufactured additively.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Erika García-López
Dr. Elisa Virginia Vázquez-Lepe
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- additive manufacturing
- advanced materials
- smart materials
- functional gradient materials
- lattice structures
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