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Precise control of wear and frictional properties is crucial for applied engineering applications. Being deposited on various engineering materials, functional tribological coatings make it possible to resolve contradictions between the bulk and surface properties of engineering components. In recent decades, significant progress has been achieved in developing new advanced coating materials combining outstanding mechanical, optical, and biomedical properties. We invite you to submit your work to this Special Issue on “Coatings in Tribology: Nanomaterials for Macroscale.” This Special Issue aims to highlight the latest achievements in the design, synthesis, and evaluation of tribological coatings through a combination of original research papers and review articles from leading groups worldwide.

In particular, the topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Computer simulation and design strategy;
Nanocomposite and multilayer tribological coatings;
Two-dimensional coating materials for tribological applications;
Structural, mechanical, and tribological properties of coatings;
Tribological coatings for special applications (space, vacuum, bio, etc.).

Dr. Oleksiy V. Penkov
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Keywords

nanostructured coatings
microstructure characterization
friction behavior
wear resistance
wear mechanism
mechanical properties

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Transparent Self-Cleaning Coatings: A Review

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Coatings 2023, 13(7), 1270; https://doi.org/10.3390/coatings13071270 - 19 Jul 2023

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Advanced coatings are essential to modern technologies as they optimise surface characteristics for different application scenarios. Transparent and self-cleaning coatings are increasingly used as protective coatings for various applications, such as foldable touchscreens, windows, and solar panels. Moreover, incorporating other functionalities such as high hardness, wear resistance, and flexibility into transparent and self-cleaning coatings is important for broadening the use cases. Although many kinds of multifunctional coatings have been developed, it is still difficult to embody several properties in one coating adequately as some properties, such as hardness and flexibility, are inherently contrastive. This review first describes basic principles, including wettability, photocatalytic reactions, photo-induced hydrophilic phenomena, and the implication of self-cleaning. The desired properties of multifunctional coatings are then listed and the methods for evaluating different properties are used. Recent progress in various preparation methods for multifunctional coatings, including the sol–gel, dip/spin, and chemical vapour deposition (CVD) methods, are also presented. Magnetron sputtering (MS) technology is widely used in coating preparation. Compared with chemosynthesis and CVD, MS is time-saving, suitable for industrial production, and environmentally friendly. Coatings prepared by MS usually possess excellent mechanical properties. Thus, we highlight the current research status of MS technology in multifunctional coating preparation. Moreover, according to the multilayer design structure of coatings, their optical and mechanical properties and self-cleaning ability can be controlled by combining the characteristics of different materials. Finally, combining photocatalytic materials such as TiO₂ with other materials through a multilayer structure to obtain a multifunctional coating with excellent overall properties is discussed. Full article

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