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 …

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

High-entropy ceramics have potential to improve the mechanical properties and high-
temperature stability over traditional ceramics, and high entropy nitrides and carbonitrides …

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 …

Bottom-up design of high-entropy ceramics is a promising approach for realizing materials
with unique combination of high hardness and fracture-resistance at elevated temperature …

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 last decade, single-phase high-entropy materials have attracted considerable
research interest owing to their unexpected existence and unique combinations of …

A radio frequency magnetron sputtering system was used to add Ag into the TiCN matrix to
improve its tribological properties at room and elevated temperatures. The results showed …

Available information concerning the elastic moduli of refractory carbides at temperatures (T)
of relevance for practical applications is sparse and/or inconsistent. Ab initio molecular …

Although titanium nitride (TiN) is among the most extensively studied and thoroughly
characterized thin-film ceramic materials, detailed knowledge of relevant dislocation core …