Due to various difficult-to-machine materials and increasingly severe machining conditions,
more and more attention has been paid to the physical vapor deposition (PVD) technology …

The review starts with introducing lead‑bismuth-eutectic (LBE) and challenges faced by
immersed mechanical components. The bulk of the review is about methods to mitigate LBE …

Cr-doped diamond-like carbon (Cr-DLC) films with Cr contents ranging from 3 up to 20 at.%
were synthesised in a codeposition process with HiPIMS (Cr deposition) and DC-pulsed …

Diamond-like Carbon (DLC) coatings were deposited by a novel HiPIMS method that
incorporates positive voltage pulses at the end of the conventional HiPIMS discharge …

This study investigates the tribological performance of DLC top-layered coatings applied to
surfaces of tools coated with CrN, TiAlSiN, and TiAlN. Double-layered coated tools …

Amorphous carbon (aC), in particular diamond-like carbon (DLC), is one of the most studied
and promising coating materials, but many of the atomic-scale mechanisms involved in their …

PVD technologies, including vacuum arc evaporation and DC-magnetron sputtering, have
been utilized in industrial settings since the early 1980s for depositing protective coatings …

Fabricating a multilayer structure with different modulation periods (Λ) is an attractive
approach to adjust the properties of the monolithic coatings. Here, multi-layered …

The nanoscratch test has been identified as one of the important tools for evaluating the
mechanical and tribological properties of materials. This paper reviews the current …

Titanium alloys are widely used in parts of dental implants, such as screws and abutments.
In practice, unwanted relative sliding between contacting implant parts can cause excessive …