Coating technology

Summary Many important functional coatings are realized by advanced coating technology in almost any kind of industry. To meet that goal, innumerable coating techniques and coating materials have been developed and are in use. By varying coating and substrate material, an almost unlimited potential exists in the case of plasma spraying and its process variants, which has to be regarded as the most important coating technique. To meet increasing requirements in coating performance, there has also been an increase in the importance of analytical techniques in coating production. The dominant areas of analytical methods which arise in the case of plasma spraying are characterization of coating materials, spray process control and coating characterization as well as cases of coating failures. To meet these requirements in analyzing, many analytical techniques are available and their use is a must in coating technology.

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Technische BeschichtungenZielsetzung, Möglichkeiten und Beitrag der Analytik zur Plasma-Sprühtechnik

     

超音速火焰喷涂含铝或锌中间层的YSZ热障涂层

在镁合金基底表面直接制备热障涂层,涂层的耐蚀性较差。采用超音速火焰喷涂法在镁合金基底和热障涂层之间分别制备了Al涂层和Zn涂层。通过XRD,SEM和EDS对涂层进行物相、微观结构和点扫描元素分析,采用电化学工作站对Al涂层试样和Zn涂层试样进行耐腐蚀性分析,同时研究了含Al中间层和含Zn中间层的热障涂层的抗热震性能。结果表明:Al涂层表面粗糙度(10.237±0.527μm)大于Zn涂层表面粗糙度(7.171±0.488μm),且喷涂过程中仅有轻微氧化。Al涂层试样的耐腐蚀性优于Zn涂层试样。含Zn中间层的热障涂层具有更好的抗热震性能。     

The effect of inorganic particles on slot die coating of poly(vinyl alcohol) solutions

Among various coating processes, slot die coating belongs to a class of pre-metered coating, in which the coating film thickness can be predetermined. In the past, most research works on slot die coating have focused mainly on polymer solutions; very little information is available using suspensions as coating fluids. In this study, the effect of adding TiO2 and SiO2 in aqueous polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) solutions on slot die coating is investigated. It was found that the stable coating window was enlarged with the addition of particles, and its size increased with solids concentration. This is due to the strong interaction between polymer and particles, resulting in a higher viscosity and surface tension. As a result, the upstream coating bead is more stable and the maximum coating speed is extended to a high value, hence the coating window becomes larger. Although both viscosity and surface tension appear to contribute to the stability of coating flow, the effect of surface tension is more dominant. The surface tension of a suspension with porous particles was higher than one with hard solid particles. Consequently, the coating window obtained with the former was significantly larger than the latter. Flow visualization revealed that under the same operating conditions, the upstream dynamic contact angle for the suspension was smaller than for the aqueous polymer solution. This observation could be related to the stability of the upstream coating bead, and hence the coating window. The experimental flow fields were verified numerically with the aid of a numerical simulation package (Flow-3D).     

利用棋盘格实验直接筛选酶免疫测定的最佳包被抗原和抗体浓度

以两个单克隆抗体及其相应的包被抗原为例,研究了棋盘格实验中包被抗原与抗体浓度组合对免疫检测中0孔吸光度值A0、IC50值和标准曲线斜率的影响.结果发现,A0和IC50值随包被抗原与抗体稀释倍数的增加而降低;斜率随抗体稀释倍数增加而降低,而随包被抗原的稀释倍数增加表现出先增加后降低的趋势.在同一抗体浓度和不同包被抗原浓度的组合中,斜率最大值出现在使板吸附达到饱和的最大稀释倍数的包被抗原浓度附近.综合实验结果确认从棋盘格实验中直接筛选最佳包被抗原、抗体浓度组合的标准是:选择使板吸附达到饱和的最大包被抗原稀释倍数为最佳包被抗原浓度,在不同抗体浓度与已选择的最佳包被抗原浓度组合中使0孔吸光度值达1.0左右的抗体稀释倍数为最佳抗体浓度.     

铝化与白金铝化涂层对MAR-M247镍基超合金之抗热腐蚀性质影响研究

本文研究MAR-M247镍基超合金表面经铝化涂层或白金铝化涂层处理后,其热腐蚀效应对腐蚀速率与显微组织之影响,并藉试片质量增加量的变化评估抗热腐蚀的能力.铝化涂层之主要组成为-βN iA l相,而白金铝化涂层表面的主要组成为PtA l2相,利用盐喷覆法将Na2SO4被覆在试片表面,置于热处理炉中观测其热腐蚀性.实验得知,铝化涂层和白金铝化涂层均可明显抑制MAR-M247的热腐蚀,且后者之效果更明显,此两种涂层在910℃之Na2SO4环境中的抗蚀性均较MAR-M247合金为佳.     

PVB掺杂有机无机复合SiO2增透膜的制备和表征

以聚乙烯醇缩丁醛(PVB)为有机掺杂剂,正硅酸乙酯为前驱体,氨水为催化剂,利用溶胶-凝胶法制备出了一种新型的有机无机复合二氧化硅增透膜。采用红外光谱、X射线衍射、粒度分析、紫外分光光度法、椭偏测定、原子力显微镜、静滴接触角测量等对膜层性质进行了表征。结果表明：PVB分子的引入并没有引起增透膜结构的变化。在相同的实验条件下,未经PVB掺杂的SiO₂增透膜在720 nm处的峰值透过率为99.8％,而PVB掺杂后的SiO₂复合膜在840 nm处的峰值透过率在99.9%以上。掺杂膜层变厚,峰值透过率朝长波方向移动。掺杂前后增透膜对水的接触角从29°增加到71°,膜层的疏水性得到明显提高。     

Features of the occurrence of electrochemical processes in contact of sodium chloride solutions with the surface of superhydrophobic coatings on titanium

A joint analysis of the results of electrochemical studies and the evolution of the parameters of a sodium chloride solution droplet in contact with the coating under test reveals the pattern of changes in the surface state which result from the electrochemical reactions and adsorption-desorption processes at the coating/electrolyte interface. Features of the corrosion process are studied on titanium samples with different protective layers on the surface: (1) a natural oxide, (2) a coating prepared via plasma electrolytic oxidation (PEO coating), (3) a PEO coating with a hydrophobic layer, and (4) a PEO coating with a superhydrophobic nanocomposite layer. The best protective properties in a chloride-containing electrolyte are exhibited by the superhydrophobic nanocomposite coating. The mechanism of corrosion protection of this coating is formulated.     

Strontium-doped hardystonite plasma sprayed coatings with robust antimicrobial activity

A strontium-doped hardystonite (Sr-HT) bioceramic, in bulk form, demonstrates excellent bioactivity for bone regeneration with high fracture toughness and compressive strength. This work examines the antibacterial and mechanical properties of Sr-HT coatings on an alpha-beta titanium alloy with a high specific strength and excellent corrosion resistance (Ti-6Al-4V) produced by atmospheric plasma spray (APS) as the deposition coating technique. A hydroxyapatite (HAp) APS coating, a commercial bioceramic coating, is chosen as the control. The in-situ observation showed that Sr-HT powders experience temperatures during plasma processing that exceeded their melting point to form a coating well adhered to the substrate. It was demonstrated that the Sr-HT coating possessed superior antibacterial properties against Gram-positive methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and Gram-negative Pseudomonas aeruginosa. In addition, the Sr-HT coating exhibits a uniform distribution of hardness and elastic moduli, higher nanohardness and elastic moduli compared to the equivalent properties of the HAp coating. Moreover, the Sr-HT coating outperforms the HAp coating regarding scratch and wear resistance. The bonding and shear strength of the Sr-HT coating are higher than the values required for orthopedic implant coatings. The Sr-HT coating also allows efficient zinc, silicon and strontium ions release when immersed in cell culture media. In summary, the antibacterial capabilities and the mechanical properties of the Sr-HT APS coating exceed those of the commercial HAp APS coating. Therefore, Sr-HT APS coatings are candidates for bioceramic coating applications in orthopedic implants.     

Mechanical and electrochemical properties of platinum coating by double glow plasma on titanium alloy substrate

In this paper, a platinum coating was deposited on titanium alloy substrate by a double glow plasma. Phase and microstructure of platinum coating were examined by X-ray diffraction and scanning electron microscopy, respectively. The microhardness of the coating was estimated by nanoindentation instrument. The adhesive force between the coating and the substrate was performed with scratch tester. The electrochemical behavior of the platinum coating in 3.5 wt % sodium chloride solution was investigated by potentiodynamic polarization. The results indicated that an adherent platinum coating could be successfully obtained on titanium alloy substrates. Compared with the titanium alloy substrate, the platinum coating had a relative low corrosion current density and high corrosion potential. It indicated that the platinum coating had a better corrosion resistance than the titanium alloy substrate.     

Development of Anti-Reflection (AR) Coating on Plastic Panels for Display Applications

Traditionally, various vacuum-based processes have been used for producing interference-type anti-reflection (AR) coatings on large area substrates for different commercial applications. In this paper, the development of sol-gel derived AR coating on large plastic substrates for display application is presented. The sol-gel dip coating process was used to deposit thin films on large size plastic panels. By developing sols with different refractive indices, multi-layer thin-film AR coating stacks were designed and fabricated. These coatings possess good uniformity and meet stringent automotive specifications. This technology has been commercialized successfully for dashboard instrument panel application in Toyota's new hybrid engine car, named Prius.In this paper, AR coatings prepared by the sol-gel process are reviewed. The basic design concept for an AR coating, the coating preparation procedure, and important parameters of the solution coating process are discussed. Optical constants of the coating materials were characterized by using spectroscopic ellipsometry. Optical, mechanical and environmental tests were performed on the sol-gel derived AR coating stack. The sol-gel derived AR coating possesses equivalent or superior properties when compared to the major commercially available AR coating products.     

CeO2对等离子喷涂Cr2O3涂层抗热震性的影响

在Ｃｒ２Ｏ３陶瓷粉末中添加不同量的ＣｅＯ２,探讨ＣｅＯ２对等离子喷涂涂层抗热震性的影响,认为涂层的热震失效机制是在循环应力作用下发生在陶瓷层／粘结层界面的疲劳失效。在等离子喷涂Ｃｒ２Ｏ３涂层中添加３％ＣｅＯ２后,热震超裂寿命及失效寿命均得到明显提高。适量的ＣｅＯ２使微型裂纹呈现网状分布于涂层薄片内,具有释放涂层内应力的作用,可延缓裂纹的起裂和扩展,并使涂层内贯穿性孔洞减少,从而显著提高涂层的抗热震     

Effects of coating composition and surface pre-treatment on the adhesion of organic-inorganic hybrid coatings to low density polyethylene (LDPE) films

Organic-inorganic hybrid coatings, obtained through the sol-gel chemistry from tetraethoxysilane and polyethylene-poly(ethylene glycol) block copolymer, have been prepared in different compositions and applied to untreated and plasma treated LDPE films by spin coating. The mechanical properties of the coatings and the adhesion between coating and substrate have been characterized by fragmentation test. An increase in coating strength, elongation at break and adhesion has been observed with increasing the organic fraction in the hybrid coating. A plasma treatment of the LDPE surface, just before the application of the coating, lead to an increase of the adhesion between coating and substrate (interfacial shear strength), leaving almost unaffected coating strength and strain at fragmentation onset.     

达克罗涂层的腐蚀动力学行为研究

达克罗涂层以高耐蚀性、无废水排放、无氢脆等优良性能而成为表面处理行业的一项高新技术[1] 。这种涂层由微细的鳞片状金属锌和以三价铬氧化物为主的粘合物构成 ,并以膜层的整体铬酸盐化为基本特征。近年来 ,我们采用动电位扫描法、恒电流法和快速三角波等多种电化学测试方法对其腐蚀动力学行为进行了研究 ,分析达克罗涂层的高耐蚀性的成因 ;同时从腐蚀电化学角度探讨用硼酸部分取代铬酸配制处理液能明显改善涂层在淡水中的耐蚀性 的机制。1　实验部分1 1　处理液的配制和涂层的制备所用试剂包括 :铬酸酐 (ＡＲ) ,硼酸 (ＡＲ) ,二丙醇 (…     

Ultrafine grain formation and coating mechanism arising from a blast coating process: A transmission electron microscopy analysis

This article examines the substrate/coating interface of a coating deposited onto mild steel and stainless steel substrates using an ambient temperature blast coating technique known as CoBlast. The process uses a coincident stream of an abrasive blast medium and coating medium particles to modify the substrate surface. The hypothesis for the high bond strength is that the abrasive medium roughens the surface while simultaneously disrupting the passivating oxide layer of the substrate, thereby exposing the reactive metal that then reacts with the coating medium. The aim of this study is to provide greater insight into the coating/substrate bonding mechanism by analysing the interface between a hydroxyapatite coating on both mild and stainless steel substrates. The coating adhesion was measured via a tensile test, and bond strengths of approximately 45 MPa were measured. The substrate/coating interface was examined using transmission electron microscopy and selected area diffraction. The analysis of the substrate/coating interface revealed the presence of ultrafine grains in both the coating and substrate at interface associated with deformation at the interface caused by particle impaction during deposition. The chemical reactivity resulting from the creation of these ultrafine grains is proposed to explain the high adhesive strength of CoBlast coatings.     

Advantages and limitations of a new cationic coating inducing a slow electroosmotic flow for CE-MS peptide analysis: a comparative study with commercial coatings

Capillary coatings are crucial for high-quality separation performance in capillary electrophoresis analysis of proteins or peptides as they prevent analyte adsorption at the capillary wall. These coating materials have to fulfill many requirements such as a good separation performance and ensuring a good repeatability. The number of commercially available coating materials is still limited, especially with regard to the charge density on the coating material and the induced electroosmotic flow (EOF) velocity. In this work, we compare the separation performance of the novel self-made cationic capillary coating OHNOON and two commercially available coating materials, the acrylamide based, neutral LN® and the cationic hexadimethrine bromide (Polybrene), using the same coating procedure for all three coating materials. The coatings are investigated regarding the separation efficiency, analyte resolution, coating stability, and migration time stability in tryptic peptide analysis. Good separation performance was confirmed for all three coating materials: all coatings provided high plate numbers of up to 400,000–500,000 and a repeatability of the EOF and the analyte migration times in the range of 1 % relative standard deviation or below. Our results reveal a moderate EOF velocity for the novel OHNOON coating in comparison to the Polybrene coating. We present a detailed discussion of the impact of this reduced EOF velocity and the separation performance. The results presented here will help to define the necessary properties of coating materials to achieve the best compromise between speed of analysis and resolution for the respective application. We show that our novel OHNOON coating is especially valuable for the analysis of low mobility analytes and for samples with a broad range of analyte mobilities.     

Poly-N-hydroxyethylacrylamide as a novel, adsorbed coating for protein separation by capillary electrophoresis.

We present the polymer poly-N-hydroxyethylacrylamide (PHEA) (polyDuramide) as a novel, hydrophilic, adsorbed capillary coating for electrophoretic protein analysis. Preparation of the PHEA coating requires a simple and fast (30 min) protocol that can be easily automated in capillary electrophoresis instruments. Over the pH range of 3-8.4, the PHEA coating is shown to reduce electroosmotic flow (EOF) by about 2 orders of magnitude compared to the bare silica capillary. In a systematic comparative study, the adsorbed PHEA coating exhibited minimal interactions with both acidic and basic proteins, providing efficient protein separations with excellent reproducibility on par with a covalent polyacrylamide coating. Hydrophobic interactions between proteins and a relatively hydrophobic poly-N,N-dimethylacrylamide (PDMA) adsorbed coating, on the other hand, adversely affected separation reproducibility and efficiency. Under both acidic and basic buffer conditions, the adsorbed PHEA coating produced an EOF suppression performance comparable to that of covalent polyacrylamide coating and superior to that of adsorbed PDMA coating. The protein separation performance in PHEA-coated capillaries was retained for 275 consecutive protein separation runs at pH 8.4, and for more than 800 runs at pH 4.4. The unique and novel combination of hydrophilicity and adsorptive coating ability of PHEA makes it a suitable wall coating for automated microscale analysis of proteins by capillary array systems.     

无电镀镍复合镀层耐蚀性质研究

研究无电镀镍镀层加入钻石微粒或PTFE微粒的均匀分散相 ,所得之复合镀层在 3.5%NaCl水溶液中的电化学分析 ,浸渍试验与临雾试验 ,皆显示复合镀层之耐蚀性低于不含微粒之无电镀镍镀层 .由SEM ,AES ,XRD ,EPMA分析镀层微观组成 ,复合镀层之磷含量分布呈差异性变化 ,磷量较多区域为微阴极 ,磷量较少区域为微阳极 ,复合镀层存在众多微电池组合 ,容易引起电化学伽凡尼腐蚀 ,造成复合镀层耐蚀性降低 ,当镀层微粒含量增加时 ,微粒的惰性保护效果超过微电池效应 ,复合镀层的耐蚀性质才能提高     

水性环氧铝粉涂层/碳钢体系的腐蚀电化学行为

应用电化学阻抗谱(EIS)和扫描振动电极技术(SVET)研究了碳钢基体上含人造缺陷的水性环氧铝粉涂层浸泡在3.5%NaCl溶液中的腐蚀电化学行为.结果表明,浸泡初期,涂层缺陷处为阳极活性区,涂层阻抗随时间延长逐渐降低,活性区逐渐扩展;之后,由于腐蚀产物的自修复作用使整个涂层/金属界面电化学反应活性降低,导致涂层阻抗快速增加.浸泡后期,由于腐蚀介质渗入到涂层/基体界面,出现了更多的阳极活性区,涂层产生破坏剥离.     

Static coating of phenyl and biphenyl polysiloxane stationary phases on small-diameter capillary columns

Static coating of phenyl and biphenyl polysiloxane stationary phases on 50 μm i.d. open tubular capillaries was studied. The influence of coating solvents and coating temperatures on the viscosities and surface tensions of the polymer stationary phases and their coating solutions was determined. A measure of the Rayleigh instability paralled the observed coating efficiencies.     

模拟深海压力环境下有机涂料/基底金属腐蚀电化学行为研究Ⅰ.海水压力对水在涂层中传输行为和涂层防护性能的影响

于实验室模拟深海压力环境,应用电化学阻抗谱(EIS)研究了有机涂料/基底金属的腐蚀电化学行为.分析海水压力对水在涂层中传输行为和涂层防护性能的影响.结果表明,与常压海水相比,在高压海水(3.5MPa)条件下,该涂层具有不同的电化学阻抗特征,主要表现在高压海水加快了涂层的吸水过程,增大了涂层的吸水率,从而加速了涂层的腐蚀失效过程,致使防护性能变差.