期刊
COATINGS
卷 11, 期 7, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/coatings11070867
关键词
high power impulse magnetron sputtering (HIPIMS); CoCrMo alloy; TiN; NbN multilayer coating; wear resistance; fatigue resistance; fracture toughness; corrosion-resistant
资金
- Zimmer-Biomet UK Limited
This study demonstrates the performance of nanoscale multilayer TiN/NbN coatings on medical-grade alloys, showing high hardness, low friction and wear coefficients. The coatings exhibited superior adhesion to the substrate, passivation behavior in aggressive environments, and reduced leaching of harmful metal ions, indicating excellent barrier properties.
This study describes the performance of nanoscale multilayer TiN/NbN coatings deposited on CoCrMo medical-grade alloys by utilising novel mixed high power impulse magnetron sputtering (HIPIMS) and direct current unbalanced magnetron sputtering (UBM) technique in an industrial size vacuum coater. Scanning electron microscopy analysis showed that these coatings were extremely dense without any intercolumnar voids. The coating exhibited high hardness of 28 GPa, as well as low friction and wear coefficient of 0.7 and 1.4 x 10(-14) m(3)center dot N-1 center dot m(-1), respectively, as compared to the bare material. Scratch tests revealed superior coating to substrate adhesion due to the HIPIMS etching prior to coating deposition. Energy-dispersive X-ray analysis of the wear debris generated during the impact test together with focused ion beam cross-section analysis in different locations of the impact crater revealed the coating failure mechanism and further confirmed the excellent coating to substrate bonding strength. Potentiodynamic polarisation tests in NaCl and Hank's solutions revealed the clear passivation behaviour, several orders of magnitude lower corrosion currents, and high pitting potentials of the coating, which guarantee excellent protection to the base alloy in such aggressive environments. Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry analysis of Hank's solution containing corrosion debris of the coated sample revealed that the leaching of harmful metal ions from the base material was reduced to below the detection limit of the technique, thus demonstrating the high barrier properties of the coating.
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