Trends in Technology of Surface Engineering of Metals and Alloys

Dear Colleagues,

Nowadays, the surface treatments of metals and alloys allow obtaining on them the films or coatings with different physical and chemical properties from the substrate. The most often used surface modification methods are as follows electropolishing (EP, MEP) and plasma electrolytic oxidation (PEO), also known as Micro Arc Oxidation (MAO), electrophoretic deposition (EPD) and ion implantation (IM), chemical or physical vapor deposition (CVD, PVD), anodic oxidation, carburization nitrocarburization and passivation, laser treatments, hydrothermal treatments, abrasive treatments and shot peening as well as thermo-reactive deposition and sol-gel coatings.

It must be pointed out that the present Special Issue of Metals is a continuation of closed already subjects Surface Treatment Technology of Metals and Alloys and Surface Engineering of Metals and Alloys, in which some aspects of surface modification by selected methods were presented. I would like to invite all researchers interested in widely understood surface engineering of metals and alloys to present their results in papers related to both experimental and theoretical studies.

Prof. Dr. Krzysztof Rokosz
Dr. Agnieszka Kułakowska
Guest Editors

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