Thermal barrier coatings (TBCs) play a pivotal role in protecting the hot structures of modern
turbine engines in aerospace as well as utility applications. To meet the increasing efficiency …

The paper briefly describes major thermal spray techniques used to spray functionally
graded coatings such as atmospheric plasma spraying, high velocity oxy-fuel spraying …

As one of the promising methods that can be employed to fabricate high-performance
thermal barrier coatings (TBCs), suspension plasma spraying (SPS) or solution precursor …

Inspired by the micro-nano structure on the surface of biological materials or living
organisms, micro-nano structure has been widely investigated in the field of functional …

The processing of nanomaterials and nanocomposites has advanced since the 1990s. The
growth and opportunities afforded by this technological domain is evident through the trends …

The plasma spray process with solid feedstock, mainly ceramics powders, studied since the
sixties is now a mature technology. The plasma jet and particle in-flight characterizations are …

Porous yttria‐stabilized zirconia (YSZ) ceramics were fabricated using tert‐butyl alcohol
(TBA)‐based gelcasting with monodisperse polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) microspheres …

Thermal spraying employing either solution precursor or suspension feedstock offers an
exciting opportunity to obtain coatings with microstructures and characteristics that differ …

A novel approach of hybridizing the conventional atmospheric plasma spraying (APS)
technique with the solution precursor plasma spray (SPPS) route to achieve thermal barrier …

The liquid precursors of calcium hydroxide and diammonium hydrogen phosphate were
injected into the plasma jet generated by the SG-100 torch to synthesize the hydroxyapatite …