Yw. Bae et al., PREPARATION AND FRICTION CHARACTERISTICS OF SELF-LUBRICATING TIN-MOS2COMPOSITE COATINGS, Materials science & engineering. A, Structural materials: properties, microstructure and processing, 209(1-2), 1996, pp. 372-376
Composite coatings consisting of discrete phases of TiN and MoS2 were
codeposited on graphite and Ti-6A1-4V substrates from Ti((CH3)(2)N)(4)
/NH3/MoF6/H2S gas mixtures. Chemical composition and microstructure of
the coatings were characterized by Auger electron spectroscopy, X-ray
diffraction, and transmission electron microscopy. Friction coefficie
nts at room temperature in air were typically in the range of 0.07 to
0.3. The friction coefficients remained comparable at 573 K, but incre
ased to 0.7 to 1.0 at 673 K. A friction coefficient value of similar t
o 0.3 was, however, obtained from a composite coating tested at 973 K.