Functional Ceramic Films and Coatings: Properties and Applications
A special issue of Coatings (ISSN 2079-6412). This special issue belongs to the section "Ceramic Coatings and Engineering Technology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2027 | Viewed by 72
Editors
Interests: materials joining; interface regulation; advanced ceramics; design of brazing filler; brazing; diffusion bonding
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Advanced ceramics exhibit outstanding high-temperature resistance, chemical inertness and excellent functional properties. This renders them irreplaceable for the fields of aerospace, new energy powder devices, semiconductor components and extreme-environment equipment and so on. Nevertheless, inherent brittleness and mismatched thermal and physical performance between ceramics and dissimilar materials severely restrict the service durability of integrated composite structures. The interfacial microstructure, phase evolution and residual stress distribution dominate mechanical properties, functional performance and long-term reliability of bonding between ceramics and heterogeneous materials or ceramics and their coating layers. Thus, interface regulation becomes a core bottleneck restricting the large-scale engineering application of advanced ceramics.
This Special Issue aims to present and disseminate the most recent advances related to the regulation of ceramics/dissimilar materials interface or ceramics/coating layers interface. Topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Regulation of joining interface between ceramic–ceramic, ceramic–metal and ceramic–polymer via brazing, diffusion bonding, laser welding, field-assisted bonding and so on.
- Interfacial optimization of functional or protective ceramic coatings, together with interfacial debonding and failure mechanisms.
- In situ interfacial modification, multi-scale interface characterization, numerical simulation of interfacial stress and performance evolution.
Dr. Ce Wang
Prof. Dr. Peng He
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- interface
- ceramics
- coatings
- dissimilar materials
- regulation mechanism
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