Advanced Manufacturing and Surface Technology

Dear Colleagues,

Advanced manufacturing is a series of general manufacturing technologies that continuously adopt the latest achievements in the fields of mechanics, electronics, information and materials in the manufacturing industry and apply them to the whole process of product design, manufacturing and operation to produce products with high quality, high efficiency, low consumption, which are clean and capable of flexible production and obtain the best technical and economic benefits. Advanced manufacturing includes additive manufacturing, special machining, precision and ultra-precision cutting, etc.

Surface technology, as a marginal, cross-cutting, comprehensive and composite discipline, which involves the fields of materials science, chemistry, physics, tribology, microelectronics, information science, nanotechnology, biomedicine and other disciplines, is one of the important frontiers of modern high-tech fields and advanced manufacturing. In recent years, the research into surface technology has achieved good results, and it is developing towards automation and intelligence.

This topic aims to integrate and present the latest advances to inspire and inform relevant researchers in the field of advanced manufacturing and surface technology, and to promote the application of surface technology. The topics of interest for this Special Issue include (but are not restricted to):

• Additive Manufacturing, including arc additive manufacturing, laser additive manufacturing, electron beam additive manufacturing, plasma additive manufacturing and others.
• Specialty Processing, including EDM, laser, electron beam, ion beam, electromachining, ultrasonic, CNC and other specialty processing.
• Extreme Manufacturing, including micro/nano-manufacturing, materials and devices with extreme functionalities, surface technology in extreme environments, etc.
• Precision and ultra-precision machining, including precision cutting, grinding processes, polishing, microfabrication.
• Surface functionalization, including spraying, plating, heat treatment, physical/chemical vapour deposition, femtosecond laser processing, nano-etching, and promising methods and processes for surface functionalization.
• Biomanufacturing, including bionic manufacturing, biomaterials additive manufacturing, biomaterials and devices, etc.
• Laser manufacturing, including laser welding, laser cladding, laser hardening, laser remelting, laser cutting, etc.
• Corrosion and protection.
• Frictional wear and lubrication.
• Any other aspects of advanced manufacturing and surface technology.

Dr. Dingding Xiang
Dr. Junying Hao
Dr. Xudong Sui
Dr. Kaiming Wang
Topic Editors