The main requirements of cemented carbides as cutting, machining, and drilling tools are
wear resistance, chemical stability at high temperatures, and proper mechanical properties …

Steel substrates used in high-pressure applications or when subjected to extreme
environments have the drawback of corroding and eroding. Extensile studies have been …

The adhesion strength and mechanical properties of hard coatings on substrates can be
improved by adding an interlayer, which is also known as an adhesion, buffer, or seed layer …

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

Abstract The Ti–Si–C and Ti–Si–N systems were thermodynamically reassessed by using
the CALculation of PHAse Diagram (CALPHAD) approach. A more suitable Gibbs energies …

Multi-element material coating systems have received much attention for improving the
mechanical performance in industry. However, they are still focused on ternary systems and …

A nano-multilayered ZrN/TiAlN was deposited as the interlayer to enhance the coating
hardness and wear resistance between the inner TiAlN and outer ZrN layers. The structural …

The influence of transition metals on the mechanical and electronic properties of RuB 2 is
studied by the first-principles approach. The results show that the TM-doped RuB 2 is a …

The interlayer design is crucial in optimizing the adhesion of TiSiCN thin films on tool steel.
Thus, Ti/TiN/TiSiN interlayer systems were deposited varying the TiSiN interlayer bias …

Pulse-enhanced vacuum arc evaporation (PEVAE), an advanced version of conventional
DC vacuum arc evaporation, generates a high flux of electrons to ionize more gaseous and …