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Competitive advantage
- Expertise in the study of microstructure-property relationships in thin film coatings, including nitrides, carbides and diamond-like carbon coatings.
- Delivering medium- and high-entropy coatings that exhibit both high hardness and remarkable toughness combined with excellent structural stability and wear resistance.
Impact
- Longer lasting tooling to reduce costs
Successful applications
- Tantalum nitride coatings for biomedical applications
- Analysis, characterisation and understanding of medium- and high-entropy alloy coatings for tooling applications
- Investigations into the structure and properties of zirconium nitride coating for applications in fuel cells
Capabilities and facilities
- Extensive facilities for measuring mechanical properties of thin film materials, including nanoindentation, scratch and wear testing
- Access, through UNSW Analytical Centre, to a wide range of instruments including electron microscopy, x-ray diffraction and surface chemistry instrumentation