Advanced combinatorial materials synthesis using induction plasma technology

点击翻译按钮获取中文摘要

Materials have always been the corner stone of any evolution of technologies especially in the field of aerospace, energy and environment. In many cases, they have limited and are limiting factors in any new process design. The continuous evolution of technologies is necessary to compensate for higher labour and raw materials costs as well as for higher and higher environmental and societal costs. Today, the need of higher efficiency and cleaner devices such as aerospace turbines or the need to convert more efficiently the energy using Solid Oxyde Fuel Cells puts a lot of pression on the discovery of new materials. Indeed, proposing advanced materials such as advanced coatings for more challenging applications requires more and more research effort as the simplest solution are already applied. However, for coatings, composition changes can not only affect the material itself but can affect the relation between the coating and the coated part. Furthermore, micro and nanostructures can change drastically coatings behaviour and properties. So there is the need to develop materials libraries adapted to coatings using the unique in the world combinatorial thermal plasma synthesis process which has been developed at the Centre de Recherche en Énergie, Plasma et Électrochimie of the Université de Sherbrooke (CREPE). This fully automated technology is one answer to give to coatings development a fast enough development pace to follow the more and more powerful computer tools system and process designers have on hand.