Titanium nitrides have good tribo-mechanical and biomedical properties. They are employed to harden and protect cutting and sliding surfaces for industrial purpose and as a non-toxic outer-surface for bio-medical applications. In this study, pure titaniumwas nitrided using RF plasma technique. Themicrostructural,mechanical, tribological, electrochemical and biomedical properties of nitrided titaniumwere investigated. The X-ray diffraction demonstrates the formation of -Ti2Nand the cubic ... Read more

In this work, duplex treatment has been carried out using radio frequency (rf) plasma nitriding process and direct current (dc) magnetron sputtering of titanium. Nitriding of AISI 304 stainless steel, using rf plasma technique, created a thick modified layer of approximately 20 μm for short plasma processing time of 10 min. After nitriding process, a thin titanium nitride film has ... Read more