Thermal spray coatings have emerged as a transformative surface engineering technique, enabling the enhancement of material performance in harsh operational environments. By propelling molten or ...

In critical fields such as aerospace, military, and industrial manufacturing, surface protection of components has been a longstanding challenge. Ceramic materials with high melting points, hardness, ...

An international team of researchers, led by Drexel University, has found that a thin coating of MXene — a type of two-dimensional nanomaterial discovered and studied at Drexel for more than a decade ...

Discover how advanced PVD and CVD coatings extend tool life in tungsten carbide manufacturing by enhancing wear resistance, ...

Typically, TBCs are made up of (1) an intermetallic bond coat - generally, an MCrAlY alloy, where M = Ni, M=Co or both; (2) a porous ceramic top coat like yttria-stabilized zirconia (YSZ); and (3) a ...

The stator vanes and rotor blades used in high-pressure gas turbines represent some of the world’s most highly loaded engineering components 1. Gas turbines reach tens of thousands of revolutions per ...

It can be important to balance dielectric strength and thermal performance when deciding on coatings for insulation and heat ...

Cold spray additive manufacturing company Titomic Limited is using its technology to produce advances in Titomic Kinetic Fusion (TKF) for lithium-ion battery (LIB) electrode manufacturing. According ...

Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a spray-on polymer coating that could help plants resist ...