Surface Engineering and Functional Coating for Alloy and Metal Materials: Challenges and Opportunities

Dear Colleagues,

In recent years, surface engineering has gained importance in the field of materials technology, particularly in aerospace, automotive, and biomedical applications. Surface engineering has gained importance, especially over the past few decades, and holds great potential for a variety of technological applications. Surface engineering enables the improvement of materials' performance at low cost, enabling functional properties that could not otherwise be achieved by the substrate material. Because surface engineering can enhance the performance of given materials at lower cost, it has enormous potential to provide technological solutions to various engineering problems. Scientists are conducting extensive research to determine the relationship between the process parameters of surface engineering processes and the resulting properties of the modified surface. However, there is an urgent need to bridge the gaps between laboratory-level research and the multitude of problems faced by industry.

We invite researchers to contribute to this Special Issue, “Surface Engineering and Functional Coating for Alloy and Metal Materials: Challenges and Opportunities”. The topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:

1. Mechanical properties of surface protection coatings.
2. Surface modification technologies.
3. Surface Modification by Ion Implantation
4. Determination of the coefficient of friction of modified surfaces.
5. The wear resistance of coatings.
6. Modeling of wear of modified surface.

Dr. Joanna Zielińska-Szwajka
Dr. Marek Barlak
Guest Editors

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