Surface Preparation and Treatments for Enhancing the Coating Performance
A special issue of Coatings (ISSN 2079-6412).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2018) | Viewed by 11833
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Interests: laser material processing; metal additive manufacturing; laser material deposition; laser process modeling; environmental impact
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue on "Surface Preparation and Treatments for Enhancing Coating Performance" aims to collect and disseminate knowledge for improving the generated coatings of metallic parts. The proper coating of a surface does not only involve the deposition of a determined layer that enhances certain surface properties. In order to guarantee desired results, the surface to be coated must be prepared: Cleaned and even shaped with a specifically-designed surface pattern that ensures the correct binding of a coating to the base material, such as sand blasting or texturing. Moreover, in many cases, a post treatment must be included to guarantee the coating's desired surface properties. For example, edge rounding of cutting tools has an enormous influence on the performance of coated tools.
The coating procedure must be considered as a whole process. Nevertheless, many publications omit the above-mentioned pre- and post-treatments, and this lack of information does not allow the achievement of proper coatings. Moreover, in many cases, published papers are headed in the opposite direction from what is expected by companies, and, consequently, they are not of interest.
This Special Issue of Coatings invites manuscripts of original articles, especially those related with latest advances and innovations in surface preparations and treatments for the achievement of proper coatings. The scope of this Special Issue includes different coating treatments, where PVD (Physical Vapor Deposition), CVD (Chemical Vapor Deposition), Electrolytic Plating, thermal spray, and laser cladding are included.
In particular, the topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Pre- and post-treatments of surfaces and their effects on coating performance
- New coatings for space applications
- The new nanostructured coatings: performance and applications
- Coatings and sustainability: Elimination of coolants, disposals, etc. Benefits of the usage of coated tools in machining
- New applications of coatings
- Coatings on ceramic and sintered surfaces
- Coatings and additive manufacturing, where laser cladding is included
- The effect of residual stresses on coating performance
Prof. Dr. Luis Norberto López de Lacalle
Guest Editors
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