A β-Ta nanocrystalline coating was engineered onto a Ti-6Al-4V substrate using a double cathode glow discharge technique to improve the corrosion resistance and bioactivity of this biomedical alloy. The new coating has a thickness of ~40 μm and exhibits a compact and homogeneous structure composed of equiaxed β-Ta grains with an average grain size of ~22 nm, which is well adhered on the substra...

graph 5100, Micromeritics) and the specific surface area was measured by nitrogen adsorption, the BET-method (ASAP 2000, Micromeritics). The particle size distribution (PSD), a narrow or broad distribution, was determined by using the equation: PSD slope=[75% (ESD)-25% (ESD)]/2.APS, where ESD means equivalent spherical diameter and APS means average particle size. Oil absorption, packing index,...

STATEMENT OF PROBLEM Despite the numerous positive features of acrylic denture base, there are a number of undeniable associated disadvantages. The properties of denture base have been improved through various interventions including application of different types of filler and coatings. OBJECTIVES This study aimed to evaluate the surface roughness, thickness and coating quality of organic-in...

Ultra-thin diamond-like carbon (DLC) coatings are used in precision engineering applications, such as magnetic storage devices, to protect intricate structures from wear and corrosion. A DLC coating typically consists of hard amorphous carbon in combination with an interlayer such as silicon (Si), to improve adhesion to the substrate material. Deformation and delamination of these coatings, eve...

Spectral domain optical coherence tomography (OCT) has recently attracted a lot of interest in the pharmaceutical industry as a fast and non-destructive modality for quantification of thin film coatings that cannot easily be resolved with other techniques. Because of the relative infancy of this technique, much of the research to date has focused on developing the in-line measurement technique ...

In this study, a comprehensive effect of particle loading and optimised process parameter on the developed zinc electrolyte was presented. The depositions were performed between 10-30 min at a stirring rate of 200 rpm at room temperature of 30 °C. The effect of coating difference on the properties and interfacial surface was acquired, at a voltage interval between 0.6 and 1.0 V for the coating ...

The tribological performance of a thermal sprayed, mirror-like surface with localized protuberances was investigated through tribotests and computational simulation. A composite coating 410L steel matrix M2 tool hard particles applied by the cold spray process as bore for combustion engines. presence promoted quick formation an antifriction tribofilm when tested SAE 0W-16 containing ZDDP MoDTC,...

In an internal combustion engine, the heat energy approximately one third of total fuel input energy is converted to useful work. Since the exhaust gas temperature is not equal environmental temperature, so lot of heat energy lost with hot gases. Also heat energy is lost in cooling of engine. If we recovered heat energy which lost in cooling instead on crankshaft as useful work, then increase t...

Of concern is the protection from overheating of an isotropically conducting body by an anisotropically conducting coating which is thin compared to the scale of the body. We assume either that the whole thermal tensor of the coating is small or that it is small in the directions normal to the body (a case we call “optimally aligned coating”). We study the asymptotic behavior of the solution to...

Electrospun micro- and nanofibrous poly(glycerol sebacate)-poly(ε-caprolactone) (PGS-PCL) substrates have been extensively used as scaffolds for engineered tissues due to their desirable mechanical properties and their tunable degradability. In this study, we fabricated micro/nanofibrous scaffolds from a PGS-PCL composite using a standard electrospinning approach and then coated them with silve...