A variety of cutting tool materials are used for the contact mode mechanical machining of
components under extreme conditions of stress, temperature and/or corrosion, including …

Over the past decades, enormous effort has been dedicated to enhancing the hardness of
refractory ceramic materials. Typically, however, an increase in hardness is accompanied by …

Interfaces between components of a material govern its mechanical strength and fracture
resistance. While a great number of interfaces is present in nanolayered materials, such as …

Tailoring vacancies is a feasible way to improve the mechanical properties of ceramics.
However, high concentrations of vacancies usually compromise the strength (or hardness) …

The impact of configurational entropy, enthalpy, and strain energy on the phase stability of
high-entropy materials has not yet been investigated quantitatively. We used ab-initio …

Nano-multilayered films offer a multilayer structure arrangement at several to tens of
nanometers. They have hardness, high-temperature oxidation resistance, and low wear …

To understand the dominance of lattice distortion and cocktail effect for an appropriate
element selection and optimistic design of multicomponent protective hard coatings, in this …

Motivated by density functional theory (DFT)-derived ductility indicators for face centered
cubic (fcc, rocksalt) structured TiN/MoN 0.5 superlattices and Ti 0.5 Mo 0.5 N 0.75 solid …

In the present work, a phase engineering strategy is explored toward forming a titanium
oxynitride (TiO x N y) phase by nitriding a sol–gel-derived TiO2-based precursor at different …

Most functional microelectronic devices as well as hard coatings use brittle ceramics like
Titanium Nitride (TiN) in nanostructured, thin film form. Damage tolerance is critical to their …