Abstract: Since the millennium, incremental breakthroughs in aerospace have attracted widespread attention from countries around the world on deep space exploration. Technological innovations in ceramic and superhard materials have ...

Abstract: It has been proved that surface nanocrstallization pretreatment is beneficial to plasma nitriding of steel by enhancing nitrogen diffusion, while the tribological properties of the nitrided nanostructured steel under ...

Abstract: Diamond-like carbon (DLC) coatings containing 0.7%, 5.8%, and 23.3% Ti were deposited via pulsed cathodic arc deposition and magnetron sputtering on AISI 316L stainless steel substrates. The varied Ti content was controlled ...