Some embodiments include a method of forming a conductive structure. A metal-containing conductive material is formed over a supporting substrate. A surface of the metal-containing conductive material is exposed to at least one radical form of hydrogen and to at least one oxidant. The exposure alters at least a portion of the metal-containing conductive material to thereby form at least a portion of the conductive structure. Some embodiments include a conductive structure which has a metal-containing conductive material with a first region adjacent to a second region. The first region has a greater concentration of one or both of fluorine and boron relative to the second region.

An article and a method of manufacturing the article is disclosed. The method includes providing the article including a substrate and a coating at least partially disposed on the substrate. The coating includes an outer surface. The coating further includes platinum and chromium. The method further includes applying cold work to the outer surface of the coating to produce a cold-worked layer extending from the outer surface of the coating to a cold work depth. The cold-worked layer includes approximately 45% cold work. The cold work depth is between about 30 microns to about 150 microns from the outer surface of the coating.

A braking band having an annular band body arranged around a rotation axis and made of one of gray cast iron, steel, aluminum or alloys thereof, has at least one braking surface having an activated band body portion for increasing adhesive capacity of at least one protective surface coating placed on the surface of the activated band body portion and having at least one material with elevated resistance to abrasion. The activated band body portion is arranged on the surface of the annular band body to form an outermost layer of the braking band with the at least one protective surface coating and has a rough profile having at least one channel delimited by at least one pair of projections, extending along a path at least partially surrounding the rotation axis and having a channel bottom and a first channel side forming an acute angle with the channel bottom and an opposite second channel side forming an obtuse angle with the channel bottom.

The present disclosure relates to an aluminum alloy-plated steel sheet having excellent workability and corrosion resistance and a method for manufacturing the same, and more particularly, to an aluminum alloy-plated steel sheet preventing microcracks generated during hot forming and has excellent seizure resistance and corrosion resistance, and a method for manufacturing the same.

A layer system for coating a metal substrate in order to form a flow field plate includes at least one cover layer made of metal oxide; at least one intermediate layer, which supports the cover layer; and a lower layer, which supports the intermediate layer(s). The cover layer is formed of indium tin oxide; wherein the indium tin oxide is optionally doped with at least one element from the group comprising carbon, nitrogen, boron, fluorine, hydrogen, silicon, titanium, tin and zirconium. At least one intermediate layer is formed of titanium nitride and/or titanium carbide and/or titanium carbonitride and/or titanium niobium nitride and/or titanium niobium carbide and/or titanium niobium carbonitride and/or chromium nitride and/or chromium carbide and/or chromium carbonitride. The lower layer is formed of titanium or a titanium-niobium alloy or chromium.

A coated steel sheet has a coating film on at least one side of a plated steel sheet. The coating film contains a binder resin, non-oxide ceramic particles containing V (excluding VC particles), and doped zinc oxide particles. The respective contents of the non-oxide ceramic particles containing V and the doped zinc oxide particles relative to the coating film satisfy the expressions: [(1) C.sub.Zn≥10.0, (2) C.sub.V≤0.5.Math.C.sub.Zn, (3) C.sub.V≤70−C.sub.Zn, (4) C.sub.V≥0.125.Math.C.sub.Zn, and (5) C.sub.V≥2.0], where C.sub.V represents the content (mass %) of the non-oxide ceramic particles containing V, and C.sub.Zn represents the content (mass %) of the doped zinc oxide particles. The coated steel sheet is excellent in both corrosion resistance before electrodeposition coating, and weldability.

The current invention describes a method of manufacturing a porous dielectric material, the method comprising (a) providing a porous template, (b) coating the porous template with an inorganic dielectric material or a precursor of an inorganic dielectric material to form a coated porous template, (c) treating the coated porous template to remove the porous template and to form a porous structure of dielectric material from the coating of inorganic dielectric material or precursor of an inorganic dielectric material, and (d) combining the formed porous structure of dielectric material with a coating polymer to form the porous dielectric material. The invention also relates to RF components on a substrate material, with a conductive material deposited on a porous dielectric material.

The present disclosure relates to coated non-metallic substrates and coated metallic substrates, and methods for producing such coated substrates. A variant of the method is characterized in that a mat or glossy coating is underneath a metallic layer obtained in some cases by way of vapor deposition and/or sputtering. In another variant, the metallic is sufficiently thin so that it remains transparent or translucent to visible light. The coated substrates may include multiple layers such as metallic layers, polysiloxane layers, a color layer, a conversion layer, a primer layer, and/or a transparent or colored layer. An application system for applying a metallic layer to at least one surface of a substrate may include a plasma generator and/or a corona system for treating one or more layers by plasma treatment and/or corona treatment.

A TiAl alloy member for hot forging includes a substrate made of TiAl alloy, and an Al layer formed on a surface of the substrate, the Al layer containing Al as a main constituent and containing Ti.

The present disclosure appropriately shortens a processing step for processing a substrate in which a silicon layer and a silicon germanium layer are alternatively laminated. The present disclosure provides a substrate processing method of processing the substrate in which the silicon layer and the silicon germanium layer are alternatively laminated, which includes forming an oxide film by selectively modifying a surface layer of an exposed surface of the silicon germanium layer by using a processing gas including fluorine and oxygen and converted into plasma.