PVD Laboratory

The article entitled Effect of Nb incorporation in Mo₂BC coatings on structural and mechanical properties - ab initio modelling and experiment was published in Acta Materialia. It deals with two of the predicted crystalline nanolaminate X₂BC phases, namely Mo₂BC and Nb₂BC. So far, only Mo₂BC has been prepared experimentally, although ab initio calculations show that it should be easier to synthesize the Nb₂BC phase than the Mo₂BC phase. What happens if we start gradually replacing molybdenum with niobium in the Mo₂BC crystalline phase, from the point of view of both calculations and experiments, can be seen in our latest article.

A list of our other publications can be found here.