Tribological Coatings: Properties, Mechanisms, and Applications in Surface Engineering

Dear Colleagues,

Tribological coating technology is changing rapidly to keep pace with advanced coatings materials and applications. Performance demands on all types of coatings materials are continuously increasing. The conventionally required coating characteristics are to protect against wear and corrosion, to minimize friction, and to extend the life of the product. The modern development of tribological coatings expands their characteristics with additional requirements for monitoring the condition and wear of the coating, for the installation of functional or self-healing layers in the coating, etc. These requirements are achieved by developing new duplex processes, nanostructuring methods, and innovative improvements of conventional processes, such as nitriding, surface hardening, carburizing, boriding, physical vapour deposition, chemical vapour deposition, plasma-assisted chemical vapour deposition, ion implantation, plasma spraying, laser cladding, etc.

In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Properties of tribological coatings;
• Influence of surface treatment on its degradation mechanisms;
• New and combined surface treatment methods;
• Experimental and processing high-performance coatings with exposure to wear on high temperatures, high stress, and other extreme environment applications;
• Coating characterizations research;
• Modeling methods for predicting of deposition or wear of coatings;
• Recent developments in duplex, multi-functional, and hybrid tribological coatings.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Prof. Dr. Suzana Jakovljević
Prof. Dr. Darko Landek
Guest Editors

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