Recent Advances in Surface Modification of Metallic Materials
A special issue of Metals (ISSN 2075-4701).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 January 2026 | Viewed by 8
Special Issue Editors
Interests: surface engineering; plasma nitriding; plasma carburizing; expanded austenite; expanded ferrite; expanded martensite
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Interests: plasma nitriding; plasma carburizing; thermal spraying; laser metal deposition
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Interests: thermal spraying; thermochemical treatment; heat treatment; spark plasma sintering; laser cladding; high-entropy alloys; stainless steel
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Nowadays surface engineering of metallic materials has become an important tool for improving the performance, extending the life, and also enhancing the appearance of components used in many fields. Modifying the surface and the near-surface regions of the materials allows for increasing corrosion resistance, tribological properties, and fatigue resistance; changing wetting behavior; enhancing biocompatibility; and modulating the electric and magnetic properties. Surface modification techniques range from finishing processes, such as electrolytic polishing (EP), electrolytic plasma polishing (EPP), and micro- or nano-texturing, to coating processes, such as the plating and electroplating processes, electrolytic oxidation, chemical vapor deposition (CVD), physical vapor deposition (PVD), thermal spraying, and direct energy deposition (DED), up to diffusion processes, such as nitriding, carburizing, nitrocarburizing, and boriding, which can be improved using plasma or ion implantation techniques. Further enhancement of the surface properties can be obtained by combining different treatments, as in the duplex treatments.
This Special Issue aims to stimulate researchers worldwide to share their studies on surface engineering of metallic materials, from the used treatment processes to the characteristics and properties of the obtained modified surfaces. For this purpose, original research articles, review articles, and significant preliminary communications are invited related to both experimental and theoretical studies.
Dr. Francesca Borgioli
Dr. Shinichiro Adachi
Dr. Thomas Lindner
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- surface engineering
- advanced polishing
- texturing
- PVD
- CVD
- thermal spraying
- direct energy deposition
- nitriding
- carburizing
- boronizing
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