In the last decades, vanadium alloyed coatings have been introduced as potential candidates for self-lubrication due to their perfect tribological properties. In this work, the influence of V incorporation on the wear performance and oxidation resistance of TiSiN/CrN film coatings deposited by direct current (DC) reactive magnetron sputtering is investigated. The results show that vanadium incorporation signifi...
The work presents a detailed analysis of the synthesis, compositional, morphological, structural, mechanical and diverse atmosphere sliding characteristics of reactive sputtered W–S–N coatings. The aim is to perform an organized study to explore the sliding performance in three different environments (room temperature, 200 °C and dry N2) and disseminate the results to promote the application of TMD-N coatings f...
In this study, we compare the tribological performance of a multilayer TiSiN/Ti(Ag)N coating with a TiSiN/TiN coating with a similar Si content in order to demonstrate the e ect of the solid lubricant phase, silver. For Al2O3 balls, the hardness and reduced modulus determine the tribological performance of the coatings for tests conducted at room temperature (RT) against Al2O3 balls. At 550 C, the TiSiN/TiN coa...