Wear and Friction of High-Performance Coatings and Hardened Surfaces

Dear Colleagues,

Wear is a major engineering material failure, while friction is known to contribute to the severity of wear and reduce the efficiency of machinery. Research and advances in this field have been significant in recent decades. In this Special Issue, we welcome the contribution of original research papers, topic reviews and industrial case studies that reflect the latest scientific and technological advances in wear-resistant coatings and hardened surfaces.

• The coatings are materials developed via physical and chemical vapour deposition, spraying and cladding processes, including, but not limited to, transition metal nitrides and carbides, diamond-like carbon (DLC) and other carbon-based coatings, metallic/ceramic multilayers and composites, multicomponent and high-entropy alloys.
• The hardened surfaces include those engineered via thermal chemical treatments such as nitriding, energetic peening and other surface-hardening processes.
• The wear and friction properties may include those determined by dry and lubricated machining, sliding/rolling, abrasion, erosion and fretting wear.
• Wear and friction mechanism studies include the characterization of worn surfaces and subsurfaces, as well as wear debris, by means of electron microscopy, electron/ion spectroscopy, crystallography, 2D/3D surface topographic analyses, and micro/nano indentation, as well as the measurement of surface residual stresses.
• The industrial case studies include failure investigations related to wear and friction, as well as the industrial application of high-performance coatings and hardened surfaces.

We appreciate your consideration and sincerely hope that you will accept our invitation to contribute to this Special Issue.

We look forward to hearing from you soon.

Dr. Quanshun Luo
Prof. Dr. Qimin Wang
Guest Editors

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