With the development of society and the economy, there is an increasing demand for surface
treatment techniques that can efficiently utilize metal materials to obtain good performances …

Thermal spraying is a broad terminology for a coating process in which materials are
deposited in a spray of finely distributed liquefied or semi-liquefied particulates to build …

St37 steel, widely used in many engineering applications, experiences significant losses in
its mechanical and physical properties over time due to reasons such as corrosion or wear …

Abstract The MoO 3/CuO binary oxides were selected as the potential high temperature
lubricants in this work based on the ionic potential and cation polarizability approach …

The thick coatings obtained from nanostructured powders with fine layered microstructure
are usually deposited using Air Plasma Spraying process (APS). In APS, nitrogen or argon …

The tribological behaviors of TiO 2–ZnO and TiO x coatings deposited by atmospheric
plasma spraying were studied to further explore the immanent tribological performance of …

A triple-layer NiCrAlY/nano-yttria stabilized zirconia (nano-YSZ)/polycaprolactone (PCL)
coating was deposited on Mg–Ca alloy by novel combination of atmospheric plasma …

Micro arc oxidation (MAO) layer (as bond coat) was successfully deposited on Mg–1% Ca
alloy in KF+ NaAlO 2 electrolyte. In order to improve the corrosion resistance of the …

The relative wear resistance of three candidate coatings for titanium alloy-based orthopedic
applications was compared using a reciprocating test method. Micrometer-sized powders of …

With good combination of hardness, ductility, and wear resistance, TiO 2 coatings are one of
the most potential hard ceramic coatings. TiO 2 in an Al 2 O 3 coating had increases the …