Advanced combinatorial materials synthesis using induction plasma technology

材料一直是任何技术发展的基石，特别是在航空航天、能源和环境领域。在许多情况下，它们在任何新的流程设计中都是有限的，并且正在成为限制因素。技术的不断发展对于弥补更高的劳动力和原材料成本以及越来越高的环境和社会成本是必要的。今天，需要更高的效率和更清洁的设备，如航空涡轮机或需要更有效地转换能源使用固体氧化物燃料电池给新材料的发现带来了很大的压力。事实上，为更具挑战性的应用提出先进的材料，如先进的涂层，需要越来越多的研究工作，因为最简单的解决方案已经得到应用。然而，对于涂层来说，成分的变化不仅会影响材料本身，还会影响涂层与被涂件之间的关系。此外，微纳米结构可以极大地改变涂层的行为和性能。因此，有必要开发适用于涂层的材料库，使用世界上独特的组合热等离子体合成工艺，该工艺已在舍布鲁克大学（CREPE）的等离子体和Électrochimie研究中心开发。这种完全自动化的技术是给涂料开发一个足够快的发展速度的一个答案，以跟上越来越强大的计算机工具系统和工艺设计人员的步伐。

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.