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Title: Process for the formation of wear- and scuff-resistant carbon coatings

Abstract

A process for forming an adherent diamond-like carbon coating on a workpiece of suitable material such as an aluminum alloy is disclosed. The workpiece is successively immersed in different plasma atmospheres and subjected to short duration, high voltage, negative electrical potential pulses or constant negative electrical potentials or the like so as to clean the surface of oxygen atoms, implant carbon atoms into the surface of the alloy to form carbide compounds while codepositing a carbonaceous layer on the surface, bombard and remove the carbonaceous layer, and to thereafter deposit a generally amorphous hydrogen-containing carbon layer on the surface of the article.

Inventors:
 [1];  [2];  [3];  [3];  [4];  [5];  [5];  [6]
  1. Bloomfield Hills, MI
  2. Sterling Heights, MI
  3. Troy, MI
  4. Warren, MI
  5. Los Alamos, NM
  6. Espanola, NM
Issue Date:
Research Org.:
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
OSTI Identifier:
870118
Patent Number(s):
5458927
Assignee:
General Motors Corporation (Detroit, MI)
Patent Classifications (CPCs):
C - CHEMISTRY C23 - COATING METALLIC MATERIAL C23C - COATING METALLIC MATERIAL
Resource Type:
Patent
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
process; formation; wear-; scuff-resistant; carbon; coatings; forming; adherent; diamond-like; coating; workpiece; suitable; material; aluminum; alloy; disclosed; successively; immersed; plasma; atmospheres; subjected; duration; voltage; negative; electrical; potential; pulses; constant; potentials; clean; surface; oxygen; atoms; implant; form; carbide; compounds; codepositing; carbonaceous; layer; bombard; remove; thereafter; deposit; amorphous; hydrogen-containing; article; suitable material; diamond-like carbon; electrical potential; carbon atoms; aluminum alloy; carbon layer; containing carbon; carbon atom; carbon coating; oxygen atoms; carbon coatings; oxygen atom; /427/

Citation Formats

Malaczynski, Gerard W, Qiu, Xiaohong, Mantese, Joseph V, Elmoursi, Alaa A, Hamdi, Aboud H, Wood, Blake P, Walter, Kevin C, and Nastasi, Michael A. Process for the formation of wear- and scuff-resistant carbon coatings. United States: N. p., 1995. Web.
Malaczynski, Gerard W, Qiu, Xiaohong, Mantese, Joseph V, Elmoursi, Alaa A, Hamdi, Aboud H, Wood, Blake P, Walter, Kevin C, & Nastasi, Michael A. Process for the formation of wear- and scuff-resistant carbon coatings. United States.
Malaczynski, Gerard W, Qiu, Xiaohong, Mantese, Joseph V, Elmoursi, Alaa A, Hamdi, Aboud H, Wood, Blake P, Walter, Kevin C, and Nastasi, Michael A. Sun . "Process for the formation of wear- and scuff-resistant carbon coatings". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/870118.
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abstractNote = {A process for forming an adherent diamond-like carbon coating on a workpiece of suitable material such as an aluminum alloy is disclosed. The workpiece is successively immersed in different plasma atmospheres and subjected to short duration, high voltage, negative electrical potential pulses or constant negative electrical potentials or the like so as to clean the surface of oxygen atoms, implant carbon atoms into the surface of the alloy to form carbide compounds while codepositing a carbonaceous layer on the surface, bombard and remove the carbonaceous layer, and to thereafter deposit a generally amorphous hydrogen-containing carbon layer on the surface of the article.},
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year = {1995},
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