Emerging Technologies for Development of Novel Materials Systems and Coatings (Third Edition)
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Thin Films and Interfaces".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 September 2025 | Viewed by 94
Special Issue Editor
Interests: advanced nanostructured materials; hydrothermal synthesis; functional graded materials; coatings technologies
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Dear Colleagues,
The development of new material systems and coatings remains a multidisciplinary topic of high importance for scientists and technologists, providing remarkable functional properties to improve their performances in many traditional and high-tech industrial areas. New or emerging technologies for material synthesis and processing are needed to obtain material systems and coatings with design compositions, microstructures, and architectures fulfilling the harsh requirements for applications in extreme mechanical, high-temperature, high-corrosion, or biological environmental conditions. Green chemical procedures with a low environmental impact enable the fine tuning of components and dopants by controlling the kinetics and mechanisms involved in the synthesis of nanostructured composites or hybrid material systems. The use of these advanced materials to obtain functionally graded materials and coating architectures may open up new directions in the study of nucleation and growth processes using physical or chemical coating technologies and controlling functional properties. Additionally, additive manufacturing combined with coating technologies may contribute to the reduction in some critical raw materials.
In this Special Issue, we aim to highlight and discuss modern trends in novel material synthesis and coatings, including fundamental research, modeling, and optimization. We welcome the submission of papers focused on renewable energy (e.g., solid-state batteries, photovoltaics, solid oxide fuel cells), gas turbines, energy-harvesting systems, sensors and actuators, and automotive and aerospace components.
It is my pleasure to invite you to submit a manuscript to this Special Issue. Full papers, communications, and reviews are all welcome.
Dr. Radu Robert Piticescu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- green chemistry synthesis
- hydrothermal/solvothermal
- sol-gel
- mechano-synthesis
- coatings
- functionally graded materials
- additive manufacturing
- EB-PVD
- RF/magnetron sputtering
- chemical vapor deposition methods
- laser coating technologies
- ab initio modeling and simulation
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