Microstructure and Properties of Metal Alloy Coatings
A special issue of Coatings (ISSN 2079-6412).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2021) | Viewed by 2785
Special Issue Editor
Interests: mechanical alloying; oxide dispersion strengthened alloys; high-entropy alloys; high-temperature alloys; nuclear structural materials; friction stir welding
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We would like to invite you to submit your work to this Special Issue on “Microstructure and Properties of Metal Alloy Coatings”. Many coating methods can be used to improve the surface performance of alloys. The mechanical properties and physical properties of coatings strongly depend on their microstructure and fabrication methods. The scope of this Special Issue includes various coating techniques applied for metallic materials, for example, laser cladding, thermal spray coating, vapor deposition, plasma-transferred arc-cladding, and mechanical alloying. The aim of this Special Issue is to present recent developments in the coatings of advanced metal alloys.
In particular, the topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- High-entropy alloy coatings
- Amorphous alloy coatings
- Refractory metal coatings
- High-temperature coatings for superalloys
- Oxide dispersion-strengthened (ODS) coatings
Prof. Dr. Chun-Liang Chen
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- high-entropy alloy
- amorphous alloy
- refractory metal
- superalloys
- oxide dispersion-strengthened (ODS) alloy
- mechanical alloying
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