The wear resistance of highly porous titanium in the tribo-pair with bronze under boundary lubrication condition was investigated. According to analyses of worn surfaces of highly porous titanium, it was shown that the main reason of poor wear resist...
Decades of intense scientific research investigations clearly suggest that only a subset of a large number of metals, ceramics, polymers, composites, and nanomaterials are suitable as biomaterials for a growing number of biomedical devices and biomed...
The Special Issue on Tribology and Surface Engineering includes nine research articles and one review article. It concerns a very important problem of resistance to wear and shaping the properties of the surface layers of different materials by diffe...
Triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) is the new technique that can convert low-frequency mechanical energy into effective electricity. As an energy collector, the pursuit of high output characteristics is understandable. Although high charge density ha...
Researchers in the field of tissue engineering are always searching for new scaffolds for bone repair. Polyetheretherketone (PEEK) is a chemically inert polymer that is insoluble in conventional solvents. PEEK’s great potential in tissue engine...
Top7 is a de novo designed protein whose amino acid sequence has no evolutional trace. Such a property makes Top7 a suitable scaffold for studying the pure nature of protein and protein engineering applications. To use Top7 as an engineering scaffold...
Friction and wear are major factors affecting the efficiency and reliability of mechanical systems, leading to increasing interest in laser surface texturing (LST) for tribological surface engineering. This review summarizes the development of LST fr...
Inspired by the “Lotus Leaf Effect” in nature, the phenomenon of superhydrophobia has attracted tremendous attention from researchers. Due to their special surface wettability, the superhydrophobic surfaces have been found to have broad p...
In the past two decades, as a novel approach for tissue engineering, cell sheet engineering has been proposed by our laboratory. Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PIPAAm), which is a well-known temperature-responsive polymer, has been grafted on tissue cu...
A variety of nanostructures capable of generating strong local electromagnetic fields (hot spots) in interaction with radiation have been under intensive investigation towards plasmonic applications in surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS), biosen...
Electrospun polymer nanofibers have received much attention in tissue engineering due to their valuable properties such as biocompatibility, biodegradation ability, appropriate mechanical properties, and, most importantly, fibrous structure, which re...
Perovskite nanocrystals (PeNCs) have attracted considerable interest as promising materials for next-generation optoelectronic devices owing to their high photoluminescence quantum yield, narrow emission linewidths, simple composition tunability, and...
The controlled synthesis and surface engineering of inorganic nanomaterials hold great promise for the design of functional nanoparticles for a variety of applications, such as drug delivery, bioimaging, biosensing, and catalysis. However, owing to t...
Corrosion—reactions occuring between engineering materials and their environment—can cause material failure and catastrophic accidents, which have a serious impact on economic development and social stability. Recently, super-hydrophobic...
Coating technologies are essential for improving material surface properties while preserving bulk performance. They are widely used to enhance wear resistance, corrosion protection, thermal stability, biocompatibility, and functional behavior in aer...
Single-phase photoanodes often suffer inferior charge transport, which can be mitigated by constructing efficient heterojunctions. Thus, we have fabricated a fluorine-doped tin oxide (FTO)/WO3/BiVO4 heterojunction using hydrothermal and spin-coating...
For rapid surface engineering of Cr-containing alloys by low-temperature nitrocarburization, we introduce a process based on pyrolysis of solid reagents, e.g., urea, performed in an evacuated closed vessel. Upon heating to temperatures high enough fo...
Cardiovascular diseases continue to be a major contributor to illness and death on a global scale, and the implementation of stents has given rise to a revolutionary transformation in the field of interventional cardiology. The thrombotic and resteno...
Surface and interface engineering has become a decisive factor in determining the performance and reliability of integrated photonic sensors. As photonic device architectures advance and geometric optimization strategies approach their fundamental pe...
Surface engineering strategies have been widely used in various technological fields. Particularly, they have been widely utilized in the biosensing field, to improve interfacial properties and facilitate molecular recognition. Among the various targ...
This article provides an overview of modern surface engineering technologies used in the manufacturing of dental components, with a particular focus on dental implants, abutments, and crowns. The main objective of the study is to critically evaluate...
The long-term stability of dental implants is limited by multiple factors, including peri-implant infection, impaired osseointegration, and poor soft tissue sealing. Compared with conventional passive surface modification strategies, piezoelectric ma...
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are membrane-enclosed nanoparticles that mediate intercellular communication in the immune system by transferring proteins, nucleic acids, and lipids. Their biocompatibility, nanoscale size, and capacity for cell-type-sel...
Objective: This systematic review aimed to evaluate the effects of biomimetic surface engineering strategies applied to dental implants on osseointegration and peri-implant bone regeneration compared with conventional implant surfaces. Materials and...
The warming climate has posed a serious threat on ground surface stability. In permafrost regions, ground surface instability may induce engineering and geological disasters, especially for the engineering corridor. It is difficult to evaluate ground...
Fiber-reinforced cementitious composites have become increasingly important in the development of durable and sustainable construction materials, particularly following the replacement of asbestos-based reinforcements. However, the long-term performa...
Among perovskites, the research on cesium lead iodides (CsPbI3) has attracted a large research community, owing to their all-inorganic nature and promising solar cell performance. Typically, the CsPbI3 solar cell devices are prepared at various heter...
This review presents a comprehensive analysis of the physicochemical mechanisms underlying surface engineering of Cu–Zn alloys through femtosecond laser processing. It focuses on the coupled evolution of laser-induced plasma formation, selectiv...
Membrane distillation (MD) is a developing membrane separation technology for water treatment that involves a vapor transport driven by the vapor pressure gradient across the hydrophobic membrane. MD has gained wide attention in the last decade for v...
This paper concerns several important topics of the Symmetry journal, namely, computer-aided design, computational geometry, computer graphics, visualization, and pattern recognition. We also take advantage of the symmetric structure of the tensor-pr...
To address the challenges of data fragmentation, inconsistent standards, and weak interactivity in oil and gas field surface engineering, this study proposes an intelligent delivery system integrated with three-dimensional dynamic modeling. Utilizing...
Titanium-based dental implants have evolved significantly, with the development of binary alloys like Ti-15Zr (Roxolid™) representing a pivotal advancement in mechanical performance. Current research focuses on biomimetic surface engineering to...
Shipyards are transitioning toward Industry 4.0 more slowly than other industrial sectors, and this inertia often limits the adoption of reliable digital workflows for reverse engineering. Within the wider research aimed at supporting the digital tra...
This paper tackles a core challenge in reverse engineering: high-fidelity reconstruction of continuous B-spline surfaces from discrete point clouds, where optimal knot placement remains pivotal yet not fully resolved. We propose a new fitting method...
Metal Injection Molding (MIM) is an established, high-precision manufacturing route for small, geometrically complex metallic components, integrating polymer injection molding with powder metallurgy. State-of-the-art feedstock systems, such as Catamo...
Bone tissue engineering has seen significant advancements with innovative scaffold fabrication techniques such as 3D printing. This review focuses on enhancing polycaprolactone (PCL) scaffold properties through structural modifications, including sur...
Tissue engineering, a rapidly advancing field in medicine, has made significant strides with the development of artificial tissue substitutes to meet the growing need for organ transplants. Three-dimensional (3D) porous scaffolds are widely utilized...
Additive Manufacturing (AM) techniques, such as Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) and Stereolithography (SLA), are increasingly adopted in various high-demand sectors, including the aerospace, biomedical engineering, and automotive industries, due to t...
In this study, we first synthesized a slow-degrading silica nanofiber (SNF2) through an electrospun solution with an optimized tetraethyl orthosilicate (TEOS) to polyvinyl pyrrolidone (PVP) ratio. Then, laminin-modified SNF2, namely SNF2-AP-S-L, was...
Planning an optimal installation site to maximize power-generation efficiency is crucial for the effective operation of photovoltaic power plants. Achieving this requires accurate, reliable information on solar irradiation across different regions. H...
Silicon anodes with a high theoretical capacity possess great potential applications in power batteries for electric vehicles, while their volume expansion always leads to crystal pulverization and electrode polarization. An ideal solution to allevia...
Additive manufacturing (AM) has emerged as a transformative manufacturing technology for producing complex components with unprecedented design flexibility. However, the widespread application of AM parts in tribological environments is often limited...
Tissue engineering has emerged as a promising approach for improved regeneration of native tissue and could increase the quality of life of many patients. However, the treatment of injured tissue transitions is still in its early stages, relying prim...
Chemical doping of boron atoms is essential to modify the electrical properties of graphene films. The synthesis of large-scale boron-doped graphene with high uniformity and good electrical properties is still a great challenge. To improve the qualit...
The land surface temperature obtained from remote sensing was widely used in the simulation of permafrost mapping instead of air temperature with the rapid development of remote sensing technology. The land surface freezing and thawing index (LFI and...
The current digital delivery of surface engineering in oil and gas fields faces challenges such as difficulty in integrating multiple heterogeneous data sources, low efficiency in quality reviews, and a lack of unified evaluation standards, which ser...
Silicon carbide (SiC) nanowires possess unique one-dimensional structural features, excellent mechanical strength, thermal stability and wide bandgap properties, showing great potential in high-temperature electronics, catalysis, sensing and composit...
Plasmonic surface lattice resonances (SLRs) have endowed plasmonic systems with unprecedently high quality (Q) factors, giving rise to great advantages for light–matter interactions and boosting the developments of nanolaser, photodetector, bio...
Both biochemical cues and the electrophysiological microenvironment play a pivotal role in influencing cell behaviors. In this study, collagen/polypyrrole biomimetic electroactive composite coatings with a fiber network structure were constructed on...
Agricultural soil contact components, including ploughshares, rotary blades, and furrow openers, form the active interface between machinery and complex field media. Operating in multiphase environments, these tools face severe abrasive wear, impact...
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