Smart Material Coatings
A special issue of Coatings (ISSN 2079-6412). This special issue belongs to the section "Corrosion, Wear and Erosion".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 June 2022) | Viewed by 4346
Special Issue Editors
Interests: advanced material & processing; shape memory alloys; NiTi; plasma spraying; thin film; 3D & 4D printing; additve manufacturing; materials characterization; CryoTreatment
Interests: fibre-reinforcemnet composites; lighweight materials; metallic foams; mechanical charecterizations; crashworthiness; impcat loading; design of experiments
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Interests: numerical simulation; contact mechanics; engineering systems
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Interests: manufacturing; material processing; surface engineering; electrochemical analysis; advanced material structures
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Smart material coating refers to an advanced coating that is able to detect environmental stimuli and respond accordingly with the variation of the specific stimulus. Materials that are able to dynamically adapt their properties to an external stimulus are called sensitive or intelligent. The standard thinking regarding coatings has been that of a passive layer that does not respond to the environment. A major trend driving the development of smart coating technologies is the continuous demand for higher performance to extend product lifetimes and reduce maintenance, to enhance energy efficiency both for cost and environmental reasons, and to cope with the change in substrates toward new and lightweight materials such as composites and aluminum. Smart or intelligent coating systems have been developed, tested, and researched in numerous laboratories and industries around the world. Examples of smart coatings include stimulus-sensitive, antimicrobial, antifouling, conductive, self-healing, and super-hydrophobic systems, and the advanced materials involved with smart material coatings include shape memory alloys (SMAs), shape memory polymers (SMPs), shape memory ceramics (SMCs), piezoelectric materials, magnetostrictive materials, electroactive materials, and combinations of these materials.
The scope of this Special Issue will serve as a forum for papers in the following concepts:·
- Protective smart coating;
- Smart actuation coating;
- Antimicrobial/antibacterial smart coating;
- Various smart coating mechanisms;
- Micro and nano study of smart coatings;
- Smart coating in electric generation;
- Smart coating in medicine;
- Smart coating in various industries;
- Super-hydrophobic to super-hydrophilic actuating smart coating;
- Smart coating surface and interface analysis.
Dr. Ajit Behera
Dr. Dipen Kumar Rajak
Dr. Catalin I. Pruncu
Dr. Pradeep Menezes
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- coating
- smart coating
- smart materials
- smart system-assisted light materials
- shape memory alloy
- shape memory polymer
- shape memory ceramic
- piezoelectric materials
- magnetostrictive materials
- electroactive material
- smart actuation
- smart coated medicine
- antimicrobial smart coating
- antibacterial smart coating
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