Advances in Metal Coatings for Wear and Corrosion Applications (Second Edition)

Dear Colleagues,

The success of the first edition of our Special Issue, entitled “Advances in Metal Coatings for Wear and Corrosion Applications”, has encouraged us to launch a second edition, where we aim to further present state-of-the-art advances in metal coatings.

Wear- and corrosion-resistant coatings are among the most effective technological means for increasing the durability of equipment and machines and reducing labour, energy, and material costs; they are being increasingly used in all technical fields. In many cases, using coatings is the only possible or most economical decision to solve several technical problems. However, for the numerous and different operating conditions of various products, it is necessary to create coatings that differ in terms of their composition, structure, and morphology.

On the other hand, the modern intensification of production and operational processes also gives rise to the need to develop and create new coatings with improved composition, structure, construction, and properties. That is why the creation and development of new functional coatings with improved characteristics and increased service properties and the development of new coating materials and technologies for their deposition are two of the current research directions in advanced materials science.

This Special Issue, entitled “Advances in Metal Coatings for Wear and Corrosion Applications (Second Edition)”, aims to collate the latest advances in the field of wear- and corrosion-resistant coatings and provide a platform for their dissemination among scientists, researchers, and industrial experts.

We cordially invite you to contribute a research or review article to this Special Issue and make your integral scientific work increasingly discoverable.

We encourage the submission of work focused on, but not limited to, the following topics:

• The development of and improvement in processes and methods for surface modification;
• The development of new coating materials and improvement in technologies for their application, with possibilities to control the processes and characteristics of the resulting coatings;
• Patterns of formation, quality characteristics, and properties of the resulting coatings;
• Creation of and research into new wear- and corrosion-resistant coatings from new roofing materials, meeting different requirements depending on the specific operating conditions, such as improved microhardness, connection to the substrate, strength and toughness, heat resistance, biocompatibility, wear resistance, corrosion resistance, and economic efficiency;
• Composite and multilayer coatings with a structure of layers with different phase compositions, as well as with an amorphous and nanocrystalline structure;
• Studies on the influence of the type and processing modes of surface treatment and the type of covering materials on the composition, structure, morphology, mechanism, and regularities of friction wear and corrosion wear of the modified surfaces;
• Methods for research and modelling of surface properties.

Prof. Dr. Georgi Kostadinov
Dr. Todor Penyashki
Prof. Dr. Mara Kandeva
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Materials is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

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• coatings
• processes and methods
• surface modification
• new coating materials
• structure
• wear and corrosion resistance
• characteristics
• properties
• biocompatibility

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