Recent advances in hard, tough, and low friction nanocomposite coatings

Tsinghua Science and Technology

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 665-679

  Voevodin, A A ^a   Zabinski, J S ^a   Muratore, C ^a  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Nanocomposite coatings; Thin film multilayers; Tribological coating

Indexed keywords

COATING TECHNIQUES; FRICTION; HARDNESS; MULTILAYERS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; THIN FILMS; TOUGHNESS; TRIBOLOGY; WEAR OF MATERIALS;

CHAMELEON NANOCOMPOSITES; ENCAPSULATING LUBRICIOUS PHASES; LOW-FRICTION COATING; NANOCOMPOSITE COATINGS; NANOCOMPOSITE MATRICES; SURFACE ENGINEERING; THIN FILM MULTILAYERS; TRIBOLOGICAL COATING;

PROTECTIVE COATINGS;

EID: 30144436414     PISSN: 10070214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1007-0214(05)70135-8     Document Type: Review

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