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US 2003/0113543 A1Published application
Low pressure coated article with polymeric basecoat
OwnerGuocun Cheninventor
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Abstract
An article is coated with a multi-layer coating having the appearance of nickel The coating comprises a polymeric layer on the surface of said article and vapor deposited on the polymeric layer a refractory metal nitride or refractory metal alloy nitride where the nitrogen content of said nitride is from about 6 to about 45 atomic percent, and wherein said metal nitride or metal alloy nitride is vapor deposited under relatively low pressure.
Claims10
An article having on at least a portion of its surface a multi-layer coating having the appearance of nickel comprising:
- layer comprised of polymer;
- vapor deposited layer comprised of refractory metal nitride or refractory metal alloy nitride wherein said nitrogen content of said refractory metal nitride or refractory metal alloy nitride is from about 6 to about 45 atomic percent and wherein said vapor deposition is conducted at pressure below about 8 millitorr.
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