Plasma Sprayed Metallic Coatings
A special issue of Metals (ISSN 2075-4701). This special issue belongs to the section "Additive Manufacturing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2022) | Viewed by 176
Special Issue Editor
Interests: wear-resistant metal materials; multi-functional cermet coating (film) design; wear and corrosion monitoring technology; surface spraying (plating and deposition) processes
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Surface engineering is one of the main ways to solve the major mechanical damage problems caused by corrosion, wear, and high temperature. The annual worldwide gross industrial output value of surface engineering has been increasing over the past few decades, with prospectively the thermal spraying output value alone reaching 13.6 billion dollars or more in 2022. As the applications of surface engineering have strongly diversified in the automotive, aerospace, marine, nuclear, and other industries, even to biochemistry, catalysis modification, and battery energy, the main superiority of this approach lies in its flexible process, material saving, and environment-friendly properties.
Plasma spraying is a very flexible thermal spray process. It can provide energy in the form of a plasma jet with temperatures higher than 20,000 °C to melt any material and modify both surface morphology and chemistry, while it is less often used for spraying simpler materials with a lower oxidation sensitivity. The fundamental development trends in the field, together with the most recent advances in the use of plasma spraying, focus on surface cladding and hardfacing, thermal barrier coatings, thermoelectric materials, biocompatible metallic biomaterials, battery energy, etc. It is possible to state that metal materials are now more present in our lives than ever before, and this is especially attributable to their ability to evolve. This Special Issue is focused on the recent evolution of metals and alloys with the scope of presenting the state of the art in plasma spraying solutions where metallic materials have become established, without a doubt, as a successful design solution thanks to their unique properties. We invite you to contribute research works comprising a large assortment of metals and alloys corresponding with their plasma-spraying processes for effective design solutions.
Your contribution to this 2022 Special Issue would be highly valuable and appreciated.
Prof. Dr. Wensheng Li
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- metal and alloys
- surface engineering
- plasma spraying
- processes and treatments
- characterization
- microstructure
- heat resistance
- corrosion
- wear
- functional performance
