There has been tremendous interest in the development of different innovative wear‐
resistant materials, which can help to reduce energy losses resulted from friction and wear …

Aiming at the problem of the “inverse relationship” between the hardness (wear resistance)
and toughness of the traditional single homogeneous structure coating on the surface of …

Advanced engineering applications necessitate developing a new class of surface coatings
that protect the surface components in these applications while also meeting the conflicting …

Laser surface texturing is a relatively well-known technique for enhancing the surface
topography of engineering materials. Lately, several surface texturing approaches like …

The conventional techniques exhibit several limitations including weak bonding strength,
shrinkage defects, micro-delamination and porosity, which duly have a synergistic effect on …

Titanium and its alloys are widely used in biomedical fields as metallic biomaterials,
specifically for implant applications. There are many kinds of titanium alloys capable to be …

Selective laser melting (SLM), one of the Laser Powder Bed Fusion (LPBF) additive
manufacturing methods, has enabled the layered production of Ti6Al4V/316L layered …

In recent years, research effort has been dedicated towards the exploration of MXenes' solid
lubrication performance verifying an outstanding wear performance due to the formation of …

The effect of the Mo element on the Ni-Ti-Zr refractory high-entropy alloy (RHEA) coatings
synthesized by laser cladding were explored in terms of microstructural evolution and …

Titanium alloys have a wide application in aerospace industries as it has greater strength
and low density, but it has poor tribological properties. To improve its friction and wear …