The study investigates the spectral, structural, and phase changes occurring in austenitic steel 12Kh18N10T during cathodic electrolytic plasma nitriding (EPN) in a Na2CO3–CO(NH2)2–NH4Cl electrolyte at 550 °C for 10 min. Emission spec...
Electrolytic plasma nitriding is an attractive chemical heat treatment used to improve the surface properties of steel by implementing nitrogen saturation. This method is widely applied to steel and iron-based alloys operating under various operating...
This article analyzes the effect of electrolytic plasma nitriding on the performance of medium-carbon steel 45 under increased mechanical loads and in aggressive environments. Nitrided samples in carbamide electrolytes, both with and without the addi...
The influence of technological parameters of plasma electrolytic nitriding and polishing on the wear resistance and corrosion resistance of medium-carbon steel is considered. The morphology and roughness of the surface, phase composition and microhar...
The positive effect of plasma electrolytic treatment on CrWMn tool steel to increase the wear resistance of its surface is shown. The effect of plasma electrolytic nitriding and subsequent polishing on the structure, phase and elemental composition,...
In this work, the effect of preliminary mechanical surface treatment on the kinetics of formation, phase composition, and functional properties of the nitrided layer during electrolytic-plasma nitriding (EPN) of austenitic stainless steel 12Kh18N10T...
Nitriding is one of the technologies used to improve the performance properties of tool steels. In addition to traditional gas nitriding, technologies aimed at increasing the productivity and/or efficiency of processing have found application in indu...
AISI 304 SS has good corrosion resistance in a variety of environments but does not have good resistance to wear. Aggressive marine environments require materials that can withstand both the biocorrosion and the wear associated with the impact of wav...
In this study, corrosion and wear behavior of three kinds of coatings by two processes, namely, plasma electrolytic oxidation (PEO) coatings (Ti/TiO2), gas nitriding coating (Ti/TiN), and the duplex coating (Ti/TiO2-N) by combination of PEO and gas n...
The results of modifying the surface of austenitic stainless steel by anodic plasma electrolytic treatment are presented. Surface treatment was carried out in aqueous electrolytes based on ammonium chloride (10%) with the addition of ammonia (5%) as...
The paper investigates the feasibility of plasma electrolytic treatment (PET) of 90CrSi tool steel to enhance hardness and wear resistance. The influence of electrophysical parameters of PET (polarity of the active electrode, chemical-thermal treatme...
The intermetallic alloy FeAl40 was plasma nitrided at 575
The possibility of increasing the durability of steel pins working against bronze bushings through plasma–electrolytic nitrocarburizing of the surface of medium carbon steel is shown. The phase composition, microhardness, morphology, and surfac...
In aerospace, aviation, nuclear power, and other high-tech fields, some essential moving parts must operate under high vacuum, high load, intense radiation, and other conditions. Under such extreme conditions, only solid lubricating materials can mee...
Nitrogen ions were implanted into the coated Nb layer by plasma immersion ion implantation to improve resistance to corrosion of a metal bipolar plate. Due to nitrogen implantation, the corrosion behavior of the Nb layer was enhanced. The electron mi...
Nitrogen was implanted into 316L stainless steel by plasma immersion ion implantation (PIII) for surface modification. Due to nitrogen implantation, the corrosion resistance and interfacial contact resistance (ICR) were improved compared to the bare...
The results of a study of structure, phase, and chemical compositions of nanostructured (Ti,Zr)N coatings formed by vacuum arc deposition on Ti0.16Pd (wt.%) alloy substrates are reported. The coating composition was varied depending on the quasi-bina...
The applications of aluminum and its alloys are still limited by low hardness and low wear resistance properties. Surface modifications, such anodizing and plasma electrolytic oxidation, represent a feasible way to overcome these drawbacks. In this s...
In this work, we report the development of separators coated with hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) to improve the thermal stability of Li-ion batteries (LIBs). Aiming to achieve a synergistic effect of separators and anodes on thermal stability and elec...