Thermally sprayed wear resistant coatings with nanostructured hard phases

The aim of this investigation was the development of a new quality of thermally sprayed coatings with high resistance against wear and corrosion and to evaluate the application potential of nano-sized hard phases in thermally sprayed layers. The newly developed material consists of a highly corrosion-resistant matrix of stainless steel (even without nickel) combined with nano-structured hard phases of vanadium nitrides (VN). On the other hand, matrices consisting of cobalt-chromium (CoCr) with submicron hard phases of tungstencarbides (WC) were investigated with respect to microstructure and wear resistance compared with conventional ones.