Disclosed herein is a non-line-of-sight ("NLOS") process for electroplating nanocomposite coatings onto a substrate. This coating reveals a combination of lubricant-hard-ductile nanocomposite coating compositions. Applications of the coatings are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, the plating process uses a nickel electrode, or an electroless plating process. In another embodiment, the obtained coating is a nanocomposite coating composition that comprises a lubricant/soft phase for providing lubrication to a surface; a hard ceramic phase for providing structural integrity and wear resistance to the surface; and a ductile metal phase for providing ductility to the surface. In a third embodiment, this coating composition has applications in mating parts where a combination of high lubricity, wear resistance and ductility is important, including hydraulic cylinders and sleeves, copper mold in steel making industry, rollers in printing, and gear geometries.
A system and method for use in applying a coating of a desired material onto one or more medical implant components. The system may include one or more thermal sprayers and a rotatable holding fixture having a plurality of mounting stations each operable to hold at least one medical implant component. The fixture may be operable to rotate about a central axis and each mounting station may be operable to rotate about a respective mounting station axis. The fixture may be arranged adjacent to one or more thermal sprayers so that during operation one or more desired materials may be sprayed by the one or more thermal sprayers upon an outer surface of each of the medical implant components while the fixture rotates about the central axis and while simultaneously therewith each of mounting stations having a respective medical implant component rotates about the respective mounting station axis.
Nanostructured manganese-containing compositions having reduced manganese dissolution and methods of making and using the same are provided, in one embodiment, the composition comprises a nanostructured oxide or hydroxide doped with Mn4+. The composition can be made by forming a nanostructured oxide or hydroxide material doped with Mn3+ and oxidizing the Mn3+ to Mn4+ to reduce dissolution of the manganese in the nanostructured oxide or hydroxide material. In another embodiment, a method of reducing dissolution of manganese present in a nanostructured MnO2 material comprises doping a nanostructured MnO2 material with Fe3+ to reduce the dissolution of the manganese. The compositions are used in water treatment to at least partially remove a contaminant there from.
Lubricant-hard-ductile composite coating compositions and methods of making the same are provided. In embodiment, a composite coating composition comprises: a lubricant phase for providing lubrication to a surface; a hard ceramic phase for providing structural integrity and wear resistance to the surface; and a ductile metal phase for providing ductility to the surface.
Anti-fouling coating compositions and methods of making and using those compositions are provided, hi an embodiment, a coating composition comprises ceramic nanoparticles, wherein the coating composition is capable of inhibiting contaminants from adhering to a solid surface.
Methods of making unique water treatment compositions are provided. In one embodiment, a method of making a doped metal oxide or hydroxide for treating water comprises: disposing a metal precursor solution and a dopant precursor solution in a reaction vessel comprising water to form a slurry; and precipitating the doped metal oxide or hydroxide from the slurry.
C01B 13/36 - Methods for preparing oxides or hydroxides in general by precipitation reactions in solutions
B01J 20/06 - Solid sorbent compositions or filter aid compositionsSorbents for chromatographyProcesses for preparing, regenerating or reactivating thereof comprising inorganic material comprising oxides or hydroxides of metals not provided for in group
B01D 39/00 - Filtering material for liquid or gaseous fluids
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CASTING MOLDS COATED FOR SURFACE ENHANCEMENT AND METHODS OF MAKING THEM
Disclosed herein are molds coated for surface enhancement, methods of making the molds, and methods of casting using such molds. In one embodiment, a mold comprises: a mold member comprising copper; and a coating disposed on at least a portion of a surface of the mold member, wherein the coating has a coefficient of thermal expansion of about 10xl0-6/°C to about 16.5xl0-6/°C and a Vickers Hardness Number of greater than about 500 and less than about 1200 at a temperature of less than or equal to about 600°C.
C23C 4/08 - Metallic material containing only metal elements
C23C 28/02 - Coating for obtaining at least two superposed coatings either by methods not provided for in a single one of main groups , or by combinations of methods provided for in subclasses and only coatings of metallic material
C23C 30/00 - Coating with metallic material characterised only by the composition of the metallic material, i.e. not characterised by the coating process
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SUPERFINE/NANOSTRUCTURED CORED WIRES FOR THERMAL SPRAY APPLICATIONS AND METHODS OF MAKING
Cored wires having a core comprising agglomerates of superfine particles and/or nanoparticles for thermal spray or overlay weld applications and methods of making the same are provided. Methods of coating a substrate by thermal spraying such as electric arc spraying with such cored wires are also provided. In an embodiment, a cored wire comprises a metallic sheath at least partially surrounding a core comprising agglomerates of superfine particles, nanoparticles, or a combination comprising at least one of the foregoing particles.
Methods of making a metallic or cermet coating include suspending solid fine metal or cermet particles in a liquid to form a liquid feedstock and injecting the liquid feedstock into an high-velocity oxygen fuel flame gun to thermally spray the liquid feedstock on a substrate to form a coating thereon.
C23C 4/12 - Coating by spraying the coating material in the molten state, e.g. by flame, plasma or electric discharge characterised by the method of spraying
C23C 4/00 - Coating by spraying the coating material in the molten state, e.g. by flame, plasma or electric discharge
Disclosed herein are medical devices. The medical devices generally include a biocompatible nanostructured ceramic material having an average grain size dimension of about 1 nanometer to about 1000 nanometers, a strain to failure of at least about 1 percent, and a cross-sectional hardness greater than or equal to about 350 kilograms per square millimeter. Also disclosed are methods of making and using the medical devices.
Disclosed herein are medical devices, particularly lumen-supporting devices, which include a biocompatible nanostructured ceramic material configured to be disposed adjacent to a luminal surface and having an average grain size dimension of about 1 nanometer to about 1000 nanometers, a strain to failure of at least about 1 percent, and a cross-sectional hardness greater than or equal to about 350 kilograms per square millimeter. Also disclosed are methods of making and using the lumen- supporting devices.
Methods of making unique water treatment compositions are provided. In one embodiment, a method of making a doped metal oxide or hydroxide for treating water comprises: disposing a metal precursor solution and a dopant precursor solution in a reaction vessel comprising water to form a slurry; and precipitating the doped metal oxide or hydroxide from the slurry.
A system and method for use in applying a coating of a desired material onto one or more medical implant components. The system may include a thermal sprayer and a rotatable holding fixture having a plurality of mounting stations each operable to hold at least one medical implant component. The fixture may be operable to rotate about a central axis and each mounting station may be operable to rotate about a respective mounting station axis. The fixture may be arranged adjacent to the thermal sprayer so that during operation the desired material may be sprayed by the thermal sprayer upon an outer surface of each of the medical implant components while the fixture rotates about the central axis and while simultaneously therewith each of mounting stations having a respective medical implant component rotates about the respective mounting station axis.
A water treatment composition containing both an oxidizing component and an absorbing component, wherein one or both comprise nanostructured materials. The nanostructured materials may be agglomerated to form particles having an average longest dimension of at least one micrometer. The oxidizing component comprises a manganese-, silver-, and/or titanium-, zirconium-, aluminium-, and/or iron-containing composition. Both constituents amy comprise an oxide, hydroxide, or oxyhydroxide and both may be doped. The water treatment compositions are useful in at least partially removing contaminants such as metallic or cationic arsenic, lead, chromium, and/or mercury from water.
A patterned inductor includes a conductive path and a nanostructured magnetic composition deposited on the conductive path. The magnetic composition can be screen printed, inkjetted, electrodeposited, spin coated, physical vapor deposited, or chemical vapor deposited onto the conductive path.
H01F 1/00 - Magnets or magnetic bodies characterised by the magnetic materials thereforSelection of materials for their magnetic properties
H01F 41/04 - Apparatus or processes specially adapted for manufacturing or assembling magnets, inductances or transformersApparatus or processes specially adapted for manufacturing materials characterised by their magnetic properties for manufacturing cores, coils or magnets for manufacturing coils
H01F 41/16 - Apparatus or processes specially adapted for manufacturing or assembling magnets, inductances or transformersApparatus or processes specially adapted for manufacturing materials characterised by their magnetic properties for applying magnetic films to substrates the magnetic material being applied in the form of particles, e.g. by serigraphy
H01F 41/26 - Apparatus or processes specially adapted for manufacturing or assembling magnets, inductances or transformersApparatus or processes specially adapted for manufacturing materials characterised by their magnetic properties for applying magnetic films to substrates from liquids using electric currents
H01F 1/33 - Magnets or magnetic bodies characterised by the magnetic materials thereforSelection of materials for their magnetic properties of inorganic materials characterised by their coercivity of soft-magnetic materials mixtures of metallic and non-metallic particlesMagnets or magnetic bodies characterised by the magnetic materials thereforSelection of materials for their magnetic properties of inorganic materials characterised by their coercivity of soft-magnetic materials metallic particles having oxide skin
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