60 years of DLC coatings: historical highlights and technical review of cathodic arc processes to synthesize various DLC types, and their evolution for industrial …

J Vetter - Surface and Coatings Technology, 2014‏ - Elsevier
Diamond-like carbon (DLC) films deposited by cathodic vacuum arc evaporation (CVAE)
have attracted worldwide interest from research groups and industry since the beginning of …

Diamond-like amorphous carbon

J Robertson - Materials science and engineering: R: Reports, 2002‏ - Elsevier
Diamond-like carbon (DLC) is a metastable form of amorphous carbon with significant sp3
bonding. DLC is a semiconductor with a high mechanical hardness, chemical inertness, and …

Preparation and characterization of diamond-like carbon coatings for biomedical applications—a review

K Malisz, B Świeczko-Żurek, S Khamseh, E Alibakhshi, B Ramezanzadeh… - Applied Surface …, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Abstract Graphite like Carbon: Niobium (GLC: Nb) thin films with different Nb contents were
applied on GTD-450 stainless steel substrates. The microstructure, mechanical properties …

Modification of food contacting surfaces by plasma polymerisation technique. Part I: Determination of hydrophilicity, hydrophobicity and surface free energy by contact …

HA Güleç, K Sarıogˇlu, M Mutlu - Journal of food engineering, 2006‏ - Elsevier
In this study, the surface characteristics of three major materials which are widely used in
food industry, glass, polyethylene (PE) and stainless steel (SS 316), were studied. The …

Synergistic effect of Cu/Cr co-do** on the wettability and mechanical properties of diamond-like carbon films

L Sun, P Guo, P Ke, X Li, A Wang - Diamond and related materials, 2016‏ - Elsevier
By choosing carbide-forming element Cr and non-carbide-forming element Cu as co-doped
metal elements, we firstly fabricated Cu and Cr co-doped diamond-like carbon (Cu/Cr-DLC) …