Project time: 2012 – 2013
Budget: 500 000 kr
This project will test to create a hard coating were the outer layer are based of fullerenes. The fullerenes will improve the friction so no lubricants would be needed for hot stamping process.
By using supersonic spray this project will make experiments to analyze if it’s possible to coat hot forming tooling by a layer of hard and low friction materials. The goal is to remove or dramatically reduce the need of lubrication as well decrease the tool wear during press hardening processes. The first layer of the coating will be based of hard metals (WC) and the final outer layer will be a mixture of WC and fullerenes of WS2. This coated layer will be compared to a reference PVD coating.
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