A number of studies have proposed several electrically insulating coatings for the vanadium structure to mitigate the magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) pumping power losses for the self-cooled lithium blanket system. The most practical scenario for power plant designs is to add the coating material to the liquid lithium breeder to help the in-situ self-healing process of the microcracking developed du...

Over the past decade, drug-eluting stents (DES) have greatly transformed the field of interventional cardiology. Generally, three components are included in a DES system: a metal stent platform, a drug carrier or so called ‘stent coating’ and a drug. As such, stent coating plays an important role in the performance of DES. This article will review the evolution of stent coatings and their role ...

objective: a clinical challenge of using zirconia frameworks is to achieve adequate bond with different substrates. this study aimed to evaluate the effect of bioglass and silica coating of zirconia substrates on microshear bond strength of resin cement to tetragonal zirconia. methods: this laboratory experimental study was conducted on zirconia discs. a total of 120 ytzp zirconia (zirkonzahn) ...

Poly (3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene)-poly (styrenesulfonate) (PEDOT:PSS) was coated on flexible polyethylene terephthalate (PET) substrate using slot die on a roll-to-roll (R2R) system under different web tensions. The electrical resistance, the standard deviation of the recorded resistance and surface roughness of the coating under different tensions were analyzed. Based on these data an optimum ...

Nanocomposite films of metal nitrides such as TiN/Si3N4, TiN/BN, and CrN/AlN have attracted substantial attention as coating materials for improving hardness and saving rare metals. It is difficult to prepare composite films consisting of nitride and oxide by conventional reactive sputtering methods. Nose et al. developed a differential pumping cosputtering (DPCS) system, which can fabricate di...

The competition between transverse surface and sub-surface cracks in a thin, hard coating bonded to polycarbonate substrate due to spherical indentation is investigated in real-time as a function of coating thickness and indenter radius. Fine grain (Y-TZP) and medium grain (alumina) ceramics and pre-abraded amorphous glass are used for the coating. As the coating thickness is reduced, the famil...

A multilayer encapsulated coating has been developed for underwater acoustic attenuation purposes. This coating provides an option for electronically activating encapsulated piezoelectric devices to increase the coatings passvie sound attenuation performance through active control methods. These methods include the ability to sense the incident and reflected acoustic pressure field and produce ...