Thermal spray coatings are widely used in many applications, and the adhesion effect at coating/substrate interface plays an important role during service life. The thermal spraying coating substrate is primarily combined by a mechanical seizure effect. In this work, strategy to generate interfacial metallurgical bonding proposed. Plasma with wire feeding was adopted increase size of sprayed pa...

Article history: NiAl+SiO2 thin films were Received 28 May 2007 Received in revised form 9 June 2008 Accepted 24 July 2008 Available online 29 July 2008

Perturbed angular correlation of gamma rays (PAC) was applied to measure concentrations of point defects in quenched and milled intermetallic compounds. Two systems with high ordering energies were studied, PdIn and NiAl, with principal results obtained for PdIn. The defects, lattice vacancies and antisite atoms, were detected by quadrupole interactions induced at nuclei of nearby In/Cd probe a...

We have studied by Spot Profile Analysis Low Energy Electron Diffraction (SPALEED) and Auger Electron Spectroscopy (AES) Ni-Al alloyed layers formed by annealing, around 780 K, Al deposits on a stepped Ni(111) surface. The surface structure and composition of the thin epitaxial Ni3Al and NiAl films, obtained respectively below and above a critical Al initial coverage c θ , differ markedly from ...

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