Research on Tribological Coatings
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Thin Films and Interfaces".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 September 2024) | Viewed by 3330
Special Issue Editors
Interests: coatings and thin films; surface engineering; physical metallurgy; alloys and casting; additive manu-facturing; materials sustainability (tribology, lurication, corrosion, fatigue); materials characterization; mechanics and in-situ microscopy; microstructure-property-relationships
Interests: surface engineering; composites; materials science; biomaterials; mechanical behavior
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Dear Colleagues,
Friction and wear is one of the three principal failure modes (wear, corrosion, fatigue) of engineering components, causing substantial national economic losses in engineering applications. Therefore, technologies such as surface strengthening, remediation, and remanufacturing are crucial for overcoming wear-related issues in industry. Functional protective coating technology possesses "low input, high yield, and high environmental friendliness", which makes it an indispensable link between new remanufacturing technologies of surfaces and industry, thereby producing enormous economic and social benefits. The tribological characteristics of functional coatings are not one of their inherent characteristics; rather, they depend on the entire tribological system and are affected by numerous factors, including the preparation method, substrate, application conditions, working environment (temperature, humidity, loads, etc.). In recent years, researchers have conducted many experiments on coatings in order to better understand the fundamental principles of tribological coatings to reduce friction and provide lubrication. The key to the research lies in the preparation method, tribological characteristics, lubrication mechanism, functionality, environment-dependent characteristics, and design of advanced friction-reducing and lubricating coatings, etc. This not only improves the lubricating and friction-reducing characteristics of the coating, but also helps to improve the service life of the coating and reduce the economic loss caused by friction and wear.
The present Special Issue aims to highlight the recent advances in tribological coatings, and to provide researchers with the opportunity to publish their latest results, reviews, methods, and cases of engineering applications to further improve the research landscape and address the related problems of friction reduction and lubrication of coatings. We welcome the submission of high-quality original research papers and reviews. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Preparation methods for tribological coatings;
- Classification of tribological coatings;
- Microstructure, tribological and mechanical properties of tribological coatings;
- Lubrication mechanisms of tribological coatings;
- Wear mechanism of tribological coatings;
- Environment-dependent characteristics of tribological coatings;
- Functionality of tribological coatings (self-lubrication, self-adaptive, self-healing, self-organized);
- Application of tribological coatings.
We thank you for your interest and look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Huatang Cao
Dr. Egemen Avcu
Dr. Feng Wen
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- tribological coatings
- lubrication
- friction
- wear
- environmental self-adaptation
- functionality
- microstructure
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