This book provides an in-depth exploration of high entropy materials (HEMs) as coatings, looking at their fundamentals, synthesis methods, properties, and industrial applications. HEM-based coatings offer remarkable potential for next-generation structural components due to their tunable physical and chemical properties, including enhanced hardness, wear resistance, corrosion resistance, and thermal stability.
Covering both high entropy alloys (HEAs) and high entropy ceramics (HECs), this book offers a comprehensive guide to their processing, characterization, and industrial uses in fields such as aerospace, automotive, and energy. Key topics include advanced synthesis methods, thermal and environmental barrier coatings, tribological properties, failure mechanisms, and the role of machine learning in optimizing HEM-based coatings.
Written by leading experts, this book bridges the gap between fundamental research and industrial applications, providing scholars, researchers, and industry professionals with a valuable reference for advancing the field of high entropy material-based coatings.
Synthesis Methods and Fabrication of HEM-Based Coatings.- Entropy-driven
Phase Formation: Predictive Approaches in PVD Coatings.- Machine Learning in
High Entropy Alloy Coatings.- Design and Optimisation of High Entropy Coating
Systems with Improved Functional Properties.- Deposition Routes for
High-Entropy Alloy Coatings: Principles, Characteristics, and Challenges.-
Thermal Spray-based High Entropy Coatings.- High-Entropy Alloy (HEA) Coatings
by Laser Processing Technology.- Laser Additive Manufacturing of High Entropy
Materials (HEM)-Based Coating: Maximizing Material Performance through
Optimization Approach.- Functionally Graded High-Entropy Coatings: Design,
Processing and Applications.- A New Frontier in PVD-Processed High-Entropy
Alloy and Ceramic Coatings: Microstructure, Properties, and Industrial
Applications.- Complex Concentrated Silicides Coatings for Refractory Alloys
- Synthesis, Characterization and Performance.- Design, Processing
Techniques, and Functional Properties of High-Entropy Alloy (HEA)-Based
Coating.- Mechanical Properties of Coating-based High Entropy Materials.-
Tribology Behaviour of High Entropy Alloy Material Coating.- FeCo-based High
Entropy Alloy Thermal Spray Coatings.- Design Strategies for Enhanced Wear
Resistance of Thermally Sprayed High Entropy Alloy (HEA)-based Coatings.-
Anti-Fouling and Anti-bacterial Properties of High Entropy Material Coatings
in Boiler Tubes Applications.- High Entropy Alloy Coatings for use in
Biomedical Applications.- Antibacterial Coatings Based on High-Entropy
Materials for Stainless Steel.- Potential Applications and Challenges in High
Entropy Coatings for Key Friction Pairs in Aviation Equipments.-
Multifunctional Coatings through High-Entropy Materials: Principles to
Applications.- Industrial Applications and Challenges in High-Entropy
Materials-Based Coatings.- Synthesis of High-entropy Ceramics
(Y0.2Yb0.2Lu0.2Eu0.2Er0.2)3Al5O12 as a Coating Material.- Exploration of
Multicomponent MAX Phases as a Coating Material: Synthesis, Properties and
Challenges.- High Entropy Ceramic Coatings for Extreme Environments:
Addressing the Compromise between Phase Stability and Functional
Performance.- High-entropy Rare Earth Thermal Barrier Oxide Coatings for
Ultrahigh Temperature Applications.- High Entropy Ceramic-Based Thermal
Barrier Coatings.- High-Entropy Oxide Ceramics for Thermal Barrier Coatings:
Principles, Production and Thermophysical Properties.- High-Entropy Ceramics:
A Solution to CMAS Corrosion Challenges in High-Temperature Coatings.- High
Entropy Ceramic Coatings/Matrix for Anti-Ablation/Oxidation Carbon Fiber
Reinforced Composites.- High-Temperature Thermal Protective Coating Based
High-Entropy Oxide Ceramic Materials.
Dr. Kamalan Kirubaharan Amirtharaj Mosas is a researcher at Alexander Dubcek University in Trencin, Slovakia, developing superalloy coatings for high-temperature applications. He has a background in ceramic coatings for corrosion and high-temperature applications, high entropy materials, ceramic matrix composites, and metal/ceramic thin films created using various physical vapor deposition (PVD) processes. He has prior experience with thermal evaporation, electron beam physical vapor deposition (EBPVD), pulsed laser deposition (PLD), and RF/DC magnetron sputtering systems. During the years 2019-2024, he received 8 sponsored projects from the defense and aerospace sectors, as well as one institutional funding for product development and commercialization. He has published 80 papers with more than 1000 citations and holds 9 Indian patents. He has served as a guest editor for Ceramics-MDPI, Coatings-MDPI, and Frontiers in Materials journals and a reviewer for a number of prestigious publications.
Assoc. Prof. Amirhossein Pakseresht is an associate professor and the head of the coating department at the FunGlass Centre for Functional and Surface Functionalized Glass at the Alexander Dubek University of Trencin in Slovakia. His research interests are plasma spraying, including splat morphology and novel thermal barrier coatings. He has also actively participated in multidisciplinary materials research, specifically surface science, anti-corrosion coatings, and composite materials. Recently, he received major grants for developing high entropy ceramics based TBCs and pyrochlore-based TBCs through plasma spray method. Prof. Pakseresht authored four edited books, especially for high-temperature applications, which were published in Springer Nature and IGI Global. He has approximately 85 journal papers, 5 patents, and 5 international book chapters that have been cited 3300 times (h-index 31) as of 2024. He serves on the editorial boards of several international scientific journals and serves as a reviewer for more than ten of them.
