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Deposition of Protective Nanostructured Diamond-Like Carbon Coatings on Aluminum Alloys

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An investigation has been made into the effects of preparation of the surface of aluminum alloy substrates on the adhesion to them of diamond-like carbon coatings with a high content of sp3-bound carbon. Carbon coatings were deposited by the laser plasma method using a pulsed YAG:Nd3+ laser with the wavelength λ = 1064 nm, the pulse length at half-height ~20 ns, and the maximum pulse energy ~0.4 J. Highly oriented pyrolytic graphite has been used as a source of carbon. Coatings have been deposited on AMg aluminum alloy substrate. The possibility has been shown for the deposition of high-adhesion diamond-like carbon coatings with a high content of sp3-bound carbon on aluminum alloys by the laser plasma method. An original method has been proposed for preparing the aluminum alloy surface before applying a protective carbon coating, with the said method consisting in the treatment of the substrate surface with plasma particles of an aluminum target accelerated to the energy of 1.5 keV.

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Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 95, No. 3, pp. 706–712, May–June, 2022.

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Goncharov, V.K., Gusakov, G.A. & Puzyrev, M.V. Deposition of Protective Nanostructured Diamond-Like Carbon Coatings on Aluminum Alloys. J Eng Phys Thermophy 95, 693–699 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10891-022-02525-8

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