Supertough Coatings: Emerging Trends in DLCs, Nitrides, Borides, and Oxides

by Peter R. Savage

This report is designed to give corporate executives and R&D strategists a comprehensive, realistic overview of the current state of research in supertough coating technologies-and to help them identify opportunities for licensing, partnering, or co-developing in this field. A new generation of supertough coating materials and processes is under development in private and public labs worldwide, promising a host of exciting new applications with enormous market potential-not just in the manufacture of machining and cutting tools, or metal forming tools, but in innovative new applications such as electromagnetic interference shielding for electronic instruments, scratch-resistant protective coatings for plastic lenses, coated cockpit windshields for military aircraft, and electro-optical displays and detectors.

120 pages, Paperback

First published December 21, 1998