Wear and Corrosion Resistant Coatings for Tooling Applications

Competitive advantage

• Expertise in the study of microstructure-property relationships in thin film coatings, including nitrides, carbides and diamond-like carbon coatings.
• Delivering medium- and high-entropy coatings that exhibit both high hardness and remarkable toughness combined with excellent structural stability and wear resistance.

Impact

• Longer lasting tooling to reduce costs

Successful applications

• Tantalum nitride coatings for biomedical applications
• Analysis, characterisation and understanding of medium- and high-entropy alloy coatings for tooling applications
• Investigations into the structure and properties of zirconium nitride coating for applications in fuel cells

Capabilities and facilities

• Extensive facilities for measuring mechanical properties of thin film materials, including nanoindentation, scratch and wear testing
• Access, through UNSW Analytical Centre, to a wide range of instruments including electron microscopy, x-ray diffraction and surface chemistry instrumentation