Coatings That Reduce Friction and Wear
AssigneeUniversity of North Texas
InventorsDiana Berman, Asghar Shirani
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Abstract
The present disclosure provide for coatings, coated structures, methods of coating, methods of coating a structure, and the like. In an aspect, the coating is a tribocatalytically-active coating, where the tribocatalytically-active coating interacts with the hydrocarbon environment forming a protective carbon-based tribofilm on the surface of the coating, which can be actively formed (reformed) during use of the coated structure within the hydrocarbon environment.
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A coated structure, comprising a surface of the structure having a tribocatalytically-active coating disposed on the surface, wherein the tribocatalytically-active coating comprises a matrix having at least one type of catalytically active element, wherein the matrix is a CoP matrix or a NiP matrix, wherein the catalytically active element is a nanoparticle having a longest dimension of about 3 to 10 nanometers.
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