Project

Publications

Doping effects on the tribological performance of diamond-like carbon coatings: A review - ScienceDirect

Abstract

Diamond-like carbon (DLC) coatings have garnered considerable interest due to their unique features, which include wear resistance with a low friction coefficient, high hardness, biocompatibility, and chemical inertness. Their tribological performance is highly dependent on tribological environment, structure, and mechanical properties of the coating. A major problem that can adversely impact the tribological properties of the DLC coating is insufficient adhesion to the substrate. This issue caused by mismatch of the substrate and coating thermal expansion coefficient (TEC) and high amount of internal stress in DLC coating. The limitations of DLC coatings for tribological performance can be overcome by incorporating different types of metallic and non-metallic elements into the coating structure. Recently, various efforts have been made to address this issue by doping certain elements into the DLC coating, including fluorine, nitrogen, silicon, and metals. This review discusses new advancements in doped DLC coatings designed to improve their tribological behavior in different specific applications such as high relative humidity, elevated temperature, and bio-implant.

Doping effects on the tribological performance of diamond-like carbon coatings: A review
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Secondments

ERA Talents

Assoc. Prof. Amirhossein Pakseresht, PhD.

Head of the Department of Coatings
Researcher

Omid Sharifahmadian, PhD.

Department of Coating Processes
Researcher

Ing. Pavel Gejdoš, PhD.

Researcher, High-Performance Materials and Coatings for Industry Research Group,

Research ID: E-3735-2012

Edgar Benjamin Montufar, PhD.

Responsible for Materials for Additive Manufacturing
Researcher

Michaela Remešová, PhD.

Researcher, High-Performance Materials and Coatings for Industry Research Group
Research ID: AAA-8935-2021

Assoc. Prof. Ladislav Čelko, PhD.

Head of the Research Group – High-Performance Materials and Coatings for Industry

Researcher

Reintegration action activities

Follow-up activities

ERA Talent Name Receiving Company Reintegration Phase in Months Follow-up Activities
ERA Talent #1 Assoc. Prof. Amirhossein Paksereht, PhD. (TNUAD) Treibacher 3M • Supervising junior researchers and students • Workshop for the coating department
• Produce advanced coating for future collaboration • Joint research paper • Joint preparation of EU project proposal
ERA Talent #12 Assoc. Prof. Ladislav Čelko, PhD. (BUT) Treibacher 3M • Conference contribution • Workshop for ERA talents, researchers, and students • Joint EU project proposal • Contract-based collaborations • Joint research paper • Development of IPR • Workshop for Research Group • ERA talent mentoring of PhD students
ERA Talent #14 Edgar Benjamin Montufar Jimenez, PhD. (BUT) Lithoz 3M • Seminar to the research group • Guidance to colleagues at BUT in tech transfers • Joint research paper • Implementation of the project prepared with Lithoz and TNUAD for which the funding was approved. The project is a direct outcome of the CLiCAM project and planned secondments – when the trustful environment was built and the mentioned partners decided to prepare a joint project

Innovation Leadership Programme

A curriculum for the Innovation Leadership programme has been created based on a needs assessment conducted among senior researchers and innovators from both the Supervisory Board and the Advisory Board. The survey results helped define individual training modules within four functional areas.
Functional area Name of the module
Entrepreneurial skills Business Plan Preparation, Strategic Decision Making and Entrepreneurial Spirit
Technology Transfer skills Technology Transfer Awareness
IPR protection skills Introduction to intellectual Property Rights for Future Innovation Leaders
Enabling competences Research Projects Development and Management, Building Capacities for Sustainable Innovation