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Coatings, Volume 10, Issue 3

March 2020 - 108 articles

Cover Story: The preservation of prehistoric cave paintings in the Magura cave (Bulgaria) is a very challenging task. The paintings are made of fossilized bat guano applied over a porous stone and are subject to particular environmental conditions which lead to severe deterioration. For painting preservation, an innovative treatment was investigated, which is aimed at improving the cohesion of the paintings and the underlying stone by forming the same mineral that constitutes human teeth and bones. The innovative treatment proved to be more effective in improving cohesion than commercial alternatives. Moreover, the treatment has the advantage of leaving the appearance of the samples on which it was tested and their ability to exchange water and water vapor with the environment basically unaltered. View this paper.
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Articles (108)

  • Article
  • Open Access
68 Citations
5,445 Views
15 Pages

24 March 2020

FeCoCrNi-Mo high entropy alloy/diamond composite coatings were successfully prepared by high speed laser cladding. A high scanning speed was adopted (>30 mm/s), and the effects of laser power, scanning speed, and diamond content on the microstruct...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,769 Views
12 Pages

Multilayer Nanoimprinting to Create Hierarchical Stamp Masters for Nanoimprinting of Optical Micro- and Nanostructures

  • Amiya R. Moharana,
  • Helene M. Außerhuber,
  • Tina Mitteramskogler,
  • Michael J. Haslinger and
  • Michael M. Mühlberger

24 March 2020

Nanoimprinting is a well-established replication technology for optical elements, with the capability to replicate highly complex micro- and nanostructures. One of the main challenges, however, is the generation of the master structures necessary for...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
23 Citations
6,125 Views
14 Pages

Formulation of Lipoprotein Microencapsulated Beadlets by Ionic Complexes in Algae-Based Carbohydrates

  • Alexandru Vasile Rusu,
  • Florin Leontin Criste,
  • Daniel Mierliţă,
  • Claudia Terezia Socol and
  • Monica Trif

24 March 2020

The present study aims to produce sustained-release algae-based carbohydrate microbeadlets of lipoproteins rich-in carotenoids extracted from organic sea buckthorn fruits. β-carotene represented the major compound of the lipoproteins extracts. E...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,157 Views
17 Pages

Metallurgical Soldering of Duplex CrN Coating in Contact with Aluminum Alloy

  • Pal Terek,
  • Lazar Kovačević,
  • Aleksandar Miletić,
  • Branko Škorić,
  • Janez Kovač and
  • Aljaž Drnovšek

24 March 2020

Coatings deposited by physical vapor deposition (PVD) significantly reduce the wear of high pressure die casting tools; however, cast alloy soldering still has a strong negative effect on production efficiency. Although a lot of research has been alr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,297 Views
12 Pages

23 March 2020

Cu/Ag core-shell composite was synthesized by the replacement-reduction method and was applied to the catalytic field. The specimens were analyzed by X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and transmission electron microscope (T...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
4,507 Views
11 Pages

Effect of Addition of Mo or V on the Structure and Cutting Performance of AlCrN-Based Coatings

  • Sidra Iram,
  • Fei Cai,
  • Jianming Wang,
  • Jiamin Zhang,
  • Jiagang Liang,
  • Farooq Ahmad and
  • Shihong Zhang

23 March 2020

This study focuses on a comparative analysis of AlCrXN (X = Mo or V) coatings with the reference AlCrN coating via arc ion plating technique (AIP). The XRD and XPS results showed that the AlCrXN coatings were mainly composed of fcc-(Cr,Al)N solid sol...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,275 Views
11 Pages

Electron-Beam Domain Patterning in Sr0.61Ba0.39Nb2O6 Crystals

  • Tatyana R. Volk,
  • Lyudmila S. Kokhanchik,
  • Yadviga V. Bodnarchuk,
  • Radmir V. Gainutdinov,
  • Eugene B. Yakimov and
  • Lyudmila I. Ivleva

23 March 2020

The characteristics of electron-beam domain writing (EBDW) on the polar and nonpolar surfaces of the field-cooled (FC) and zero-field cooled (ZFC) Sr0.61Ba0.39Nb2O6 (SBN) crystals are presented in the range of accelerating voltage U from 10 to 25 kV....

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
4,161 Views
13 Pages

Phytochemical Compounds as Cleaning Agents on Granite Colonized by Phototrophic Subaerial Biofilms

  • Chiara Genova,
  • Elsa Fuentes,
  • Patricia Sanmartín,
  • Gabriele Favero and
  • Beatriz Prieto

22 March 2020

The society has become increasingly interested in using natural products over chemicals for cleaning activities. In this study, the cleaning potential of formulations embedded in a hydrogel matrix and composed respectively of essential oils (EOs) of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
71 Citations
7,567 Views
12 Pages

22 March 2020

Composite coatings of inorganic nanomaterials with polyelectrolytes are promising materials for wood modification. Endowing wood with flame retardancy behavior can not only broaden the range of applications of wood, but also improve the safety of woo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,013 Views
7 Pages

Low Frictional MoS2/WS2/FineLPN Hybrid Layers on Nodular Iron

  • Pior Kula,
  • Robert Pietrasik,
  • Sylwester Pawęta and
  • Adam Rzepkowski

21 March 2020

The paper presents the new concept of low frictional hybrid composite coatings on nodular cast iron. The structure of it is multilayer and consists of MoS2 and/or WS2 nanoinclusions embedded in the iron nitrides’ zone and relatively deep hard diffusi...

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