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Automotive

In the automotive sector, nanotechnologies are widely used and can make a difference on different levels. Nanotechnology applications also in this case greatly improve the final product and cover a wide range of possibilities: scratch-resistant paint, fuel cells, more efficient batteries, more resistant tires, anti-reflective glass etc.

Biomedics

The nano world has always been widely used for medical applications, which is why if you are a biomedical products company, you probably already know that you can find allies in nanotechnology to improve your products.

Furniture

Nanotechnologies play a fundamental role in the furniture industry. Here, nanotechnology is capable of optimizing products to launch them into a market that is increasingly attentive to energy saving and performance efficiency.

Tools

In the field of anti-wear and anti-corrosion coatings, the role of nanotechnologies has fundamentally contributed to the improvement of the operational performance of cutting inserts for the processing of ferrous and non-ferrous metal materials, such as titanium and aluminum alloys but also wood-based materials.

In the field of anti-wear and anti-corrosion coatings, the role of nanotechnologies has fundamentally contributed to the improvement of the operational performance of cutting inserts for the processing of ferrous and non-ferrous metal materials, such as titanium and aluminum alloys but also wood-based materials.

Each material taken for itself has certain characteristics. The reason why instruments are often coupled with different materials is to have more characteristics available that can be useful for the chosen purposes. This is why your instruments are often made of composite materials. Here is that nanotechnologies can be a turning point. In fact, as the size of the constituent materials decreases, the behavior of the composite material is enhanced, so in the nanometric regime the instruments will be able to synergetically benefit from the properties of its constituents. We can study the nanostructured coating that best suits your needs.

The nanostructured coating can be designed according to different approaches.

Nanolaminates

A first approach involves the realization of nanolaminate systems in which the coating consists of an alternation of two or more nanometric layers of different materials.

Gradient coatings

A second approach instead consists in designing gradient coatings, in which the composition and / or structure of the coating material are modulated continuously during the deposition process.

Dispersion

A third approach consists in creating composite systems in which nanostructured particles of a material are dispersed in a matrix of another material, forming for example Cermets in which hard ceramic paeticelles are dispersed in a high tenacity metal matrix.

Crystalline

A fourth approach focuses on the crystal structure, trying to maximize tool performance by working on the size and alignment of the crystalline grains of the material.

In recent years, industrial giants such as Sandvik Coromant, world leader in the production of cutting tools and CeramTech, specialized in wear-resistant ceramic materials in biomedical and industrial applications, have developed materials and technologies based on one or more of these approaches, obtaining excellent feedback. in terms of performance and sales.