Nanostructured Coatings

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xx

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2. Galileo Comes to the Surface!

   • Jeff T. M. De Hosson, Albano Cavaleiro

   Pages 1-26

3. Size Effects on Deformation and Fracture of Nanostructured Metals

   • Benedikt Moser, Ruth Schwaiger, Ming Dao

   Pages 27-77

4. Defects and Deformation Mechanisms in Nanostructured Coatings

   • Ilya A. Ovid’ko

   Pages 78-108

5. Nanoindentation in Nanocrystalline Metallic Layers: A Molecular Dynamics Study on Size Effects

   • Helena Van Swygenhoven, Abdellatif Hasnaoui, Peter M. Derlet

   Pages 109-142

6. Electron Microscopy Characterization of Nanostructured Coatings

   • Jeff Th. M. De Hosson, Nuno J. M. Carvalho, Yutao Pei, Damiano Galvan

   Pages 143-215

7. Measurement of Hardness and Young’s Modulus by Nanoindentation

   • Thomas Chudoba

   Pages 216-260

8. 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

   • Albano Cavaleiro, Bruno Trindade, Maria Teresa Vieira

   Pages 261-314

9. 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

   • Bruno Trindade, Albano Cavaleiro, Maria Teresa Vieira

   Pages 315-346

10. Concept for the Design of Superhard Nanocomposites with High Thermal Stability: Their Preparation, Properties, and Industrial Applications

    • Stan Veprek, Maritza G. J. Veprek-Heijman

    Pages 347-406

11. Physical and Mechanical Properties of Hard Nanocomposite Films Prepared by Reactive Magnetron Sputtering

    • J. Musil

    Pages 407-463

12. Thermal Stability of Advanced Nanostructured Wear-Resistant Coatings

    • Lars Hultman, Christian Mitterer

    Pages 464-510

13. Optimization of Nanostructured Tribological Coatings

    • Adrian Leyland, Allan Matthews

    Pages 511-538

14. Synthesis, Structure, and Properties of Superhard Superlattice Coatings

    • Lars Hultman

    Pages 539-554

15. Synthesis, Structure, and Applications of Nanoscale Multilayer/Superlattice Structured PVD Coatings

    • P. Eh. Hovsepian, W. -D. Münz

    Pages 555-644

16. Back Matter

    Pages 645-651

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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 interdisclipinarynature of the subject has made it a rich playing ?eld for scienti?c innovation and technological progress.

• Coat
• Hard
• Hardness
• deposition
• dynamics
• electron microscopy
• nanocomposite
• nanostructure
• oxidation
• surface
• tribology

• Depto. Eng. Mecanica, University de Coimbra, Columbra, Portugal

  Albano Cavaleiro

• Department of Applied Physics, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

  Jeff Th. M. Hosson

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