Nanostructured Coatings

✍ Scribed by Jeff T. M. De Hosson, Albano Cavaleiro (auth.), Albano Cavaleiro, Jeff Th. M. De Hosson (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 671
• Series: Nanostructure Science and Technology
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Controlling the performance of structures and components of all sizes and shapes through the use of engineered coatings has long been a key strategy in materials processing and technological design. The ever-increasing sophistication of en- neered coatings and the rapid trend toward producing increasingly smaller devices with greater demands on their fabrication, properties and performance have led to signi?cant progress in the science and technology of coatings, particularly in the last decade or two. Nanostructured coatings constitute a major area of sci- ti?c exploration and technological pursuit in this development. Withcharacteristic structural length scales on the order of a few nanometers to tens of nanometers, nanostructured coatings provide potential opportunities to enhance dramatically performance by offering, in many situations, extraordinary strength and hardness, unprecedented resistance to damage from tribological contact, and improvements in a number of functional properties. At the same time, there are critical issues and challenges in optimizing these properties with ?aw tolerance, interfacial adhesion and other nonmechanical considerations, depending on the coating systems and applications. Nanostructured coatings demand study in a highly interdisciplinary research arena which encompasses: surface and interface science study of defects modern characterization methodologies cutting-edge experimental developments to deposit,synthesize, conso- date, observe as well as chemically and mechanically probe materials at the atomic and molecular length scales state-of-the-art computational simulation techniques for developing - sightsintomaterialbehaviourattheatomicscalewhichcannotbeobtained in some cases from experiments alone The interdisclipinary nature of the subject has made it a rich playing ?eld for scienti?c innovation and technological progress.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xx
Galileo Comes to the Surface!....Pages 1-26
Size Effects on Deformation and Fracture of Nanostructured Metals....Pages 27-77
Defects and Deformation Mechanisms in Nanostructured Coatings....Pages 78-108
Nanoindentation in Nanocrystalline Metallic Layers: A Molecular Dynamics Study on Size Effects....Pages 109-142
Electron Microscopy Characterization of Nanostructured Coatings....Pages 143-215
Measurement of Hardness and Young’s Modulus by Nanoindentation....Pages 216-260
The Influence of the Addition of a Third Element on the Structure and Mechanical Properties of Transition-Metal-Based Nanostructured Hard Films: Part I—Nitrides....Pages 261-314
The Influence of the Addition of a Third Element on the Structure and Mechanical Properties of Transition-Metal-Based Nanostructured Hard Films: Part II—Carbides....Pages 315-346
Concept for the Design of Superhard Nanocomposites with High Thermal Stability: Their Preparation, Properties, and Industrial Applications....Pages 347-406
Physical and Mechanical Properties of Hard Nanocomposite Films Prepared by Reactive Magnetron Sputtering....Pages 407-463
Thermal Stability of Advanced Nanostructured Wear-Resistant Coatings....Pages 464-510
Optimization of Nanostructured Tribological Coatings....Pages 511-538
Synthesis, Structure, and Properties of Superhard Superlattice Coatings....Pages 539-554
Synthesis, Structure, and Applications of Nanoscale Multilayer/Superlattice Structured PVD Coatings....Pages 555-644
Back Matter....Pages 645-651

✦ Subjects

Nanotechnology; Materials Science