Self-healing polymers and nanocomposites form an important class of responsive materials.
These materials have the capability to reversibly heal their damage. For aerospace …

Hard and wear-resistant coatings created utilizing physical vapor deposition (PVD)
techniques are extensively used in extreme tribological applications. The friction and wear …

The paper presents the results of microstructure, mechanical and tribological tests of copper
matrix sinters with the addition of nano-TiO 2 and copper-decorated multi-walled carbon …

PVD technologies, including vacuum arc evaporation and DC-magnetron sputtering, have
been utilized in industrial settings since the early 1980s for depositing protective coatings …

One of the main problems in ships is corrosion, which reduces the lifetime usage of ship
parts and increases maintenance costs. Ceramic coatings can contribute to solving this …

The multi-principal nitride film is known for its high hardness, good corrosion resistance, but
its limited toughness severely reduces its wear resistance. This study presents a VCoNiN …

The worldwide increase in demand for automotive sectors requires improved components
life cycle, fuel economy and emission control. However, the occurrence of high temperature …

The mechanical and wear behavior of CrN/CrAlN multilayers were improved by tailoring the
experimental conditions of a hybrid magnetron sputtering process based on a high-power …

This study focuses on a numerical data-driven machine learning (ML) approach applied to
predict critical parameters, including hardness, Von Mises stress, and equivalent plastic …

The mechanical and wear behavior of CrN/CrAlN multilayers were improved by tailoring the
experimental conditions of a hybrid magnetron sputtering process based on a high-power …