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Title: | Sparkling touchdown |
Authors: | Podgoric, S Jones, BJ Bulpett, R Franks, J |
Keywords: | DLC;Diamond-like Carbon;Aerospace;Environment;PECVD;Epoxy;Sustainability |
Issue Date: | 2008 |
Publisher: | Institute of Materials |
Citation: | Materials World 16(4): 21 - 11, Apr 2008 |
Abstract: | Diamond-like carbon combines the properties of graphite and diamond to provide an inert, hard wearing, low-friction, thin-film barrier coating that can be deposited uniformly over a large area. Medical and electronic applications – including surgical implants and hard-disk heads - currently benefit from this versatile material, which has recently emerged into the limelight on the latest razor blades, and for high-performance manufacturing applications. Researchers at Brunel University and Hawker Pacific Aerospace, collaborating as part of an EPSRC sponsored Environmental Technology Engineering Doctorate (EngD) scheme, are investigating diamond-like carbon as a hard wearing, anti-corrosion coating on aircraft components, as an alternative to current techniques that rely on heavy metals. |
URI: | http://www.iom3.org/materialsworld/feature-pdfs/apr08/mw0408_sparkling_measured.pdf http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/2590 |
ISSN: | 0967-8638 |
Appears in Collections: | Materials Engineering The Experimental Techniques Centre |
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