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Understanding corrosion and tribology behaviors of VN and VCN coatings in seawater

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VN and VCN coatings were prepared using multi-arc ion plating technique on 316L stainless steel and single silicon substrates. Microstructures, mechanical performances, corrosion behaviors and tribology properties of VN and VCN coatings in the atmosphere, distilled water and seawater were contrastively tested. It was confirmed that the VCN coating had a typical nanocystallite/amorphous structure. Moreover, the hardness increased from 30.5 to 36.5 GPa and the corrosion current density decreased from 2.16 × 10−6 to 0.82 × 10−6 A cm−2 after carbon was doped into the VN coating. Compared with the VN coating, the VCN coating had the lowest friction coefficient of 0.26 and wear rate of 0.68 × 10−6 mm3 Nm−1 in seawater, which could be ascribed to the lubrication of graphitization transfer film and improvement of the comprehensive performance.

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This work was supported by the Program of Qingjiang Excellent Young Talents, Jiangxi University of Science and Technology, Natural Science Foundation of Jiangxi Province (Grant 20181BBE58001) and Natural Science Foundation of Jiangxi Education Department (Grant GJJ180431).

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    Hao Chen, Xiaohao Xie, Yun Wang, Yanliang Wang & Yuwei Ye

  2. Engineering Research of Center of High-efficiency Development and Application Technology of Tungsten Resources, Ministry of Education, Ganzhou, 341000, China

    Hao Chen

  3. Key Laboratory of Marine New Materials and Related Technology, Zhejiang Key Laboratory of Marine Materials and Protection Technology, Ningbo Institute of Material Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ningbo, 315201, China

    Yuwei Ye

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Chen, H., Xie, X., Wang, Y. et al. Understanding corrosion and tribology behaviors of VN and VCN coatings in seawater. Tungsten 1, 110–119 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42864-019-00002-z

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