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Deposition and characterization of diamond-like nanocomposite coatings grown by plasma enhanced chemical vapour deposition over different substrate materials

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Diamond-like nanocomposite (DLN) coatings have been deposited over different substrates used for biomedical applications by plasma-enhanced chemical vapour deposition (PECVD). DLN has an interconnecting network of amorphous hydrogenated carbon and quartz-like oxygenated silicon. Raman spectroscopy, Fourier transform–infra red (FT–IR) spectroscopy, transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and X-ray diffraction (XRD) have been used for structural characterization. Typical DLN growth rate is about 1 \({\upmu} \)m/h, measured by stylus profilometer. Due to the presence of quartz-like Si:O in the structure, it is found to have very good adhesive property with all the substrates. The adhesion strength found to be as high as 0·6 N on SS 316 L steel substrates by scratch testing method. The Young’s modulus and hardness have found to be 132 GPa and 14· 4 GPa, respectively. DLN coatings have wear factor in the order of 1 × 10 − 7 mm3/N-m. This coating has found to be compatible with all important biomedical substrate materials and has successfully been deposited over Co–Cr alloy based knee implant of complex shape.

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Acknowledgements

We express our sincere gratitude to Dr K H Sancheti for allowing us to coat indigenously developed ‘Indus Knee’ orthopedic implant. Dr Raghu Bhattacharyya helped in solving many technical problems through discussions. Soumya Sarkar has done the profilometer measurements. Dr Sandip Bysakh kindly did the TEM measurements. Authors also thank Dr (Mrs) S Sen and Mrs S Roy for their help in taking SEM micrographs. We are thankful to Dr S Majumdar for allowing us to do XRD measurements. Mr. Guillaume Begin of Micro Photonics Inc. and Mr. Rajkishore Sahani of Material Testing & Metallurgy Group, Aimil Ltd., Kolkata, have done hardness and scratch resistence testing of DLN coatings. We are grateful to Prof. Colin Bain for allowing us to use Raman facility.

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  1. Central Glass & Ceramic Research Institute, CSIR, 196, Raja S. C. Mullick Road, Kolkata, 700 032, India

    AWADESH KR MALLIK, NANADADULAL DANDAPAT & SOMESWAR DATTA

  2. Meghnad Saha Institute of Technology, Techno India Group, Kolkata, 700 107, India

    PRAJIT GHOSH, UTPAL GANGULY, SUKHENDU JANA, SAYAN DAS & SAMIR KUMAR LAHIRI

  3. Department of Chemistry, Durham University, Durham, DH1 3LE, UK

    KAUSTAV GUHA

  4. Perkin Elmer Technology Innovation Centre, Mumbai, 400 059, India

    GARFIELD REBELLO

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MALLIK, A.K., DANDAPAT, N., GHOSH, P. et al. Deposition and characterization of diamond-like nanocomposite coatings grown by plasma enhanced chemical vapour deposition over different substrate materials. Bull Mater Sci 36, 193–202 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12034-013-0465-0

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