This review article exemplifies the importance of self-cleaning materials and coatings. Self-
cleaning coatings are becoming an integral part of our daily life because of their utility in …

Thin films based on transition-metal carbides exhibit many interesting physical and chemical
properties making them attractive for a variety of applications. The most widely used method …

Proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) have been promoted more than 100 years
and are in the forefront of the large-scale commercial application with the technology …

Titanium carbide (TiC) coatings are widely used in several industrial applications, including
tooling and tribological applications. These materials are used due to their mechanical …

The current work mainly investigates the corrosion resistance and conductivity of TiN layer
on Ti–6Al–4V with liquid phase plasma electrolytic nitridation for PEMFC bipolar plate (BP) …

Proton-exchange membrane fuel cells are one kind of renewable and clean energy
conversion device, whose metallic bipolar plates are one of the key components. However …

Taking CrN coating as an example, a new refinement method was performed to improve the
tribological performance of metal nitride coatings in the low temperature thermal cycling in …

Chromium carbide films with different phase contents were deposited at 126±26° C by
industrial high rate reactive magnetron sputtering, using both direct current magnetron …

The work investigated the tribological behavior of TiAlSiCN coating at evaluated
temperatures. Results showed that TiAlSiCN coating exhibited excellent wear resistance at …

In this study, hard wear-resistant Ti-Si-C coatings were deposited on Cu-Cr materials to
improve their performance as sliding electrical contact materials. A ceramic disk composed …