Acrylic-based coatings are produced in formulations to suit all the major markets within the coatings industry. Industrial, decorative, printing inks, powder, and wall coverings are some of the market areas where acrylic-based coatings are widely used. Water emulsion and film-forming acrylic-based coatings are of particular importance due to their relative high performance and extremely low vol...

ecorative coatings applied with D . . sputter ion plating processes have become a widely accepted application for vacuum technology. Although the deposition itself is only one important step among others, indusmal decorative applications require a reproducible and productive coating system. Leybold, as a system manufacturer, is featuring machines with a high level of up-time as well as an extra...

he wide use of nickel coatings is T due to their valuable properties.l-2 Nickel coatings are used primarily for decorative and industrial purposes. The uses of nickel in the decorative field are. numerous including automobile parts, fumiture, general hardware and fasteners, bicycles, as undercoats in low-cost jewelry, sporting equipment, toys, cutlery, lamps and plumbing fixtures. Most of the d...

Titanium Nitride (TiN) coatings have led the way for providing increased wear resistance and extended life of cutting tools, whether carbide inserts or high-speed steel. Where the earliest applications were for high temperature substrate materials (carbides) and chemical vapor deposition (CVD) was the process of choice, later developments in the physical vapor deposition (PVD) technology, espec...

Transition metal nitride coatings films such as TiN or ZrN have been extensively studied for industrial applications. Residual stresses of the coatings generally affect the mechanical behaviour and the corrosion resistance and hence the performance of the product. The development of new, fast and simple methods for the assessment of residual stresses is then of great importance for coating tech...

Coatings of specific materials in few atoms of thickness to several microns on certain substrate is the basic need of society and they attend the regular attention of scientific community working in different domains; decorative and protective coatings, transparent and insulating coatings, coating medical implants and surgical instruments, coatings for drug delivery and security purposes, ultra...

The success of a wide range of commercial products and industrial processes depends on meeting specific flow requirements. Industrial applied rheology attempts to relate fundamental properties to fitness-for-use of fluids of commerce. Architectural and industrial coatings, molded plastics, adhesives, personal care products and cosmetics, inks, cement, drilling muds, ceramic slips, solder pastes...

The transition metal nitrides like titanium nitride exhibit very interesting color variation properties depending on the different plasma deposition conditions using cylindrical magnetron sputtering method. It is found in this deposition study that nitrogen partial pressure in the reactive gas discharge environment plays a significant role on the color variation of the film coatings on bell-met...

Magnetron sputtering has become the process of choice for the deposition of a wide range of industrially important coatings. Examples include hard, wear-resistant coatings, low friction coatings, corrosion resistant coatings, decorative coatings and coatings with speci"c optical, or electrical properties. Although the basic sputtering process has been known and used for many years, it is the de...