Polymers and their composites are widely used for designing structures in aerospace,
automotive, electronic, sport industries due to their lightweight, cost, and processing …

Polymer metallization via cold spray additive manufacturing is an emerging thermal spray
approach for deposition of thick metallic coatings on polymers and fiber-reinforced …

The importance of natural fibres over synthetic fibres have gained significant attention in the
research area, due to their higher specific strength, stiffness, lightweight and inexpensive …

Surface treatments on polymer-based materials are frequently used to enhance mechanical
and physical properties. Cold spray is a metallisation technique that provides a viable …

Composites are increasingly preferred in industrial, medical, and sporting applications due
to their exceptional mechanical, electrical, thermal, and physical properties, as well as their …

Cold Spray (CS) is an emerging metal additive manufacturing and surface coating
technology, where metallic microscale powders are accelerated to supersonic velocities …

The Cold Gas Dynamic Spray technology, generally referred as Cold Spray, is a relatively
new additive manufacturing technique able to produce fully dense coatings through the …

Cold spray deposition, which can be framed in the wider family of additive manufacturing, is
a manufacturing technique that is able to produce coatings on diverse types of substrates …

Carbon fiber reinforced polymers (CFRPs) are increasingly used in the latest generations of
aircraft, but their low electrical conductivity is a concern for lightning strike protection. During …

In this work, the manufacturing through cold gas dynamic spray (cold spray or CS) of metallic
composite coatings of Al-Al 2 O 3 on organic composite substrates with thermoplastic PLA …