Architects and designers are always looking for new and innovative methods of creating the spectacular. It is not surprising therefore that the demand for cold-spray metal coatings has spiralled ...

Coatings are developed to protect materials against corrosion and wear in chemical and physical interaction in its environment. Corrosion and wear issues still occur at large scale in diverse ...

Inovati, a Santa Barbara-based company, has successfully developed a low-pressure metal deposition technique that has won it an R&D 100 Award for 2002. Known as Kinetic Metalization, it is capable of ...

Workers at the Hanford Site in Washington state are using cold spray metal coating on aging double-shell waste tanks to ...

Most coatings have a functional purpose as well as a decorative one. Paint protects a car's body against the elements while adding razzle-dazzle to its appearance. Some coatings, though, are mainly ...

Researchers’ interest in thermal spraying varies from the very practical to the uncommon and theoretical studies. In between this lies the July 2000 issue of Materials Research Bulletin titled ...

There’s a lot of hype about ceramic coatings for planes, automobiles and especially boats. We got curious about them and initiated a test to learn how involved the application process is and see what ...