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Fabrication of functional nanostructured coatings by a combined sol–gel and plasma-enhanced chemical vapour deposition method

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Nanostructures have a wide range of potential applications in industry because they can impart novel mechanical or functional properties to coatings such as abrasion resistance, UV shielding, superhydrophobicity. In this work we present a method for the fabrication of nanostructured coatings with improved mechanical properties, in which sol–gel nanoparticles are deposited on a surface and embedded in a ceramic film by plasma-enhanced chemical vapour deposition. This synthetic strategy is applied to the fabrication of transparent nanostructured antiscratch coatings.

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Rusty T. is gratefully acknowledged for enlightening discussion. C. Pattana is acknowledged for satisfactory friction coefficient measurements and analysis.

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  1. Associazione CIVEN, Via delle Industrie 5, 30175, Venezia, Italy

    Stefano Costacurta, Paolo Falcaro, Simone Vezzù, Marino Colasuonno, Paolo Scopece, Erika Zanchetta & Alessandro Patelli

  2. CSIRO, Division of Materials Science and Engineering, Private Bag 33, Clayton South MDC, VIC, 3169, Australia

    Paolo Falcaro

  3. Dipartimento di Ingegneria Meccanica, Università di Padova, Via Marzolo 9, 35131, Padova, Italy

    Erika Zanchetta & Massimo Guglielmi

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Costacurta, S., Falcaro, P., Vezzù, S. et al. Fabrication of functional nanostructured coatings by a combined sol–gel and plasma-enhanced chemical vapour deposition method. J Sol-Gel Sci Technol 60, 340–346 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10971-011-2573-x

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