Surface Modification of Materials by Laser Processing

Dear Colleagues,

Laser technology is widely adopted from various manufacturing industries for cutting, welding, texturing, roughing, and finishing operations, enabling the production of semi-finished/finished parts for the manufacturing of tighter tolerance components in the automotive and aerospace sectors, or in hybrid technologies, such as assisted precision machining. In recent years, industry has shown more interest in the laser surface engineering (LSE) of a wide range of materials (including metals, ceramics, polymers, and natural materials). LSE enables the tailoring of material properties to end user requirements via a change in topography and microstructure or a change in both microstructure and chemistry; however, laser surface engineering is strongly dependent on the functional properties required by the application (friction, hydrophobicity/hydrophilicity, hardness, etc.).

This Special Issue is devoted to publishing original research and high-quality review articles relevant to recent advances in the surface modification of materials by laser processing. Potential topics for this Special Issue will include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Recent developments in laser processing related to surface engineering, such as cladding, ablation, texturing, polishing, selective laser melting, etc.
• Novel laser surface modification technologies to functionalize the properties of the surface target.
• Fundamental studies on laser–material interaction.
• Evaluation of surface integrity post-laser surface modification.

Dr. Manuela Pacella
Guest Editor

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