Metals (Oct 2022)

High-Temperature Oxidation of CrN/ZrN Multilayer Coatings

  • Andrey Vorontsov,
  • Andrey Filippov,
  • Nickolay Shamarin,
  • Evgeny Moskvichev,
  • Olga Novitskaya,
  • Evgenii Knyazhev,
  • Yuliya Denisova,
  • Andrei Leonov,
  • Vladimir Denisov,
  • Sergei Tarasov

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/met12101746
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 10
p. 1746

Abstract

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Multilayer nitride coatings provide some of the best performance when in their use for the production of metalworking tools. In this work, vacuum-arc plasma-assisted deposited multilayer ZrN/CrN coatings with different numbers of constituent layers were characterized for high-temperature oxidization in air using weighing, confocal and scanning electron microscopy and synchrotron XRD. Oxidizing at 300 °C did not deteriorate the coating surfaces, while higher temperatures caused surface deterioration and oxidation accompanied by cracking, delamination and considerable mass gains. The coating with higher number of thinner layers showed higher oxidation resistance due to more prominent oxygen barrier effect.

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