“…In the CS process the particles are accelerated by a high-velocity jet stream that is generated via the expansion of pressurized, preheated nitrogen or air in a vonverging-diverging nozzle to exceed critical plastic deformation velocity [17,19]. Currently, cold spray is mainly employed to deposit relatively soft, heat sensitive and oxidation sensitive materials such as Al, Cu, Ti, 316, Ni-based 25 alloy, soft matrix composite powder such as WC/Co, diamond/Ni, and amorphous material [20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27], but it is difficult to deposit high hardness particles such as Stellite 6, Ni60, diamond, WC, and metal-ceramic materials, or prohibitively expensive to process by cold spray [28].…”