Evaluation of interfacial toughness of sub-micron-thickness layers deposited on a ductile substrate is a challenging task which has motivated different experimental approaches. Fragmentation testing was used in the present study as a means of interface characterization of a silicon–nitride-coated polyimide substrate. During the test, after an initial rapid segmentation–cracking phase, the coati...

Coating technology is decisively important for metallization of ceramic materials and metal sealing technology. Previous studies have shown that the network-like structure after penetration molten aluminum can significantly improve strength joint components. However, direct coating method limited by shape substrate. To obtain a dense film on surface B4C, in this study, was deposited pulse elect...

A better control of the metal–electrolyte interface is mandatory to help development rechargeable magnesium batteries. Protecting surface by a coating layer avoid its passivation with conventional liquid electrolytes promising strategy. Herein, in contact mercury droplet, crystalline amalgam created on magnesium. After creation this coating, remarkable improvement plating/stripping process obse...

The field of active colloids is attracting significant interest to both enable applications and allow investigations of new collective colloidal phenomena. One convenient active colloidal system that has been much studied is spherical Janus particles, where a hemispherical coating of platinum decomposes hydrogen peroxide to produce rapid motion. However, at present producing these active colloi...

Coating of dispersions or suspensions of particles in a fluid is very common in the manufacturing of functional materials. Commonly, a uniform distribution of the suspended phase is required, but, in practice, agglomerates of the suspended particles appear in the final product. It has been shown experimentally that agglomeration takes place as the dispersion flows inside the coating die, before...

Nanocomposite Cr–B–N coatings were deposited from CrB0.2 compound targets by reactive arc evaporation using an Ar/N2 discharge at 500 °C and −20 V substrate bias. Elastic recoil detection (ERDA), x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), x-ray diffraction (XRD), high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM), and selected-area electron diffraction (SAED) were used to study the effect of...

There is increasing demand to functionalize meso- and nanoporous materials by coating and make the porous substrate biocompatible or environmentally friendly. However, coating on a meso-porous substrate poses great challenges, especially if the pore aspect ratio is high. We adopted the pulsed laser deposition (PLD) method to coat Ni(3)Al-based meso-porous membranes, which were fabricated from a...

MCrAlY coatings are deposited onto superalloys to provide oxidation and corrosion protection at high temperature by the formation of a thermally grown oxide scale. In this project, the oxidation behaviour of a HVOF CoNiCrAlYSi coating on IN792 was studied for both isothermal oxidation (900, 1000 and 1100 °C) and thermal cycling (100-1100 °C). The microstructural evolution of the CoNiCrAlYSi coa...