A system for laser-driven propulsion, system comprising a laser source and a target comprising an accelerating part and a projectile part, the accelerating part comprising a metal layer and a porous layer pressed against the metal layer; wherein the laser source is selected to emit pulse beams directed to the metal layer at a fluence below the plasma ablation threshold of the material of the metal layer.

An electrical connecting structure (10) for use as a means for transmitting electrical energy between a first electrical component and a second electrical component, wherein the connecting structure (10) is formed from a number of layers (20, 30, 40, 50) arranged serially with one another, a first outer layer (20) consisting of aluminum or an aluminum alloy and a second outer layer (50) preferably consisting of aluminum or an aluminum alloy, and a third and preferably fourth layer (30, 40), specifically one or two inner layers, being provided between the outer layers (20, 50), the inner layer or inner layers (30, 40) being respectively produced by cold gas spraying.

A coated steel substrate has a steel substrate having a surface. A coating layer is atop the surface. The coating layer includes: aluminum activated by indium; and a ceramic binder. The coating also may comprise of multiple layers with different properties to facilitate the galvanic protection capability.

A sliding member of the present invention includes a coating on a base material. The coating contains hard metal particles and corrosion-resistant metal particles that have hardness lower than that of the hard metal particles. The hard metal particles contain particles that have at least Vickers hardness of 600 Hv or higher. The corrosion-resistant metal particles are made of at least one kind of metal selected from the group consisting of copper (Cu), cobalt (Co), chromium (Cr), and nickel (Ni), or are made of an alloy containing said metal. The coating has a cross section in which the hard metal particles are dispersed in an island manner in a particle aggregate of the corrosion-resistant metal particles and in which an area ratio of the corrosion-resistant metal particles is 30% or larger. Thus, corrosion of the hard metal particles in the coating is prevented, whereby the sliding member maintains wear resistance for a long time.

Methods of forming a desired geometry at a location on a superalloy part are disclosed. The method may include directing particles of a powder mixture including a low melt temperature superalloy powder and a high melt temperature superalloy powder to the location on the superalloy part at a velocity sufficient to cause the superalloy powders to deform and to form a mechanical bond but not a metallurgical bond to the superalloy part. The directing of particles continues until the desired geometry is formed. Heat is applied to the powder mixture on the repair location. The heat causes the low melt temperature superalloy powder to melt, creating the metallurgical bonding at the location. Another method uses the same directing to form a preform for repairing the location on the part. The low melt temperature superalloy powder melts at less than 1287° C., and the high melt temperature superalloy powder melts at greater than 1287° C.

An internal combustion engine comprising: a combustion chamber surrounded by at least an inner wall of a cylinder bore, a cylinder head, a valve and a piston, and a coating layer arranged on at least part of the inner wall of the combustion chamber, wherein the thermal conductivity of the coating layer is, at room temperature, lower than the thermal conductivities of the cylinder block, the cylinder head, the valve and the piston, the thermal conductivity of the coating layer is reversibly increased along with a rise in the temperature of the coating layer, and wherein the heat capacity per unit area of the coating layer is more than 0 kJ/(m.sup.2.Math.K) and 4.2 kJ/(m.sup.2.Math.K) or less.

Provided are a heat-resistant member provided with a heat-shielding coating suitable for stable manufacturing and excellent in heat-insulating, thermoresponsive and distortion accommodating properties, and a method for manufacturing the same. The heat-shielding coating includes a metallic portion formed of agglomerates of a plurality of metal particles, and inorganic compound particles dispersed in the metallic portion. The metal particles are diffusion-bonded each other, and the metallic portion and a base material of the heat-resistant member are diffusion-bonded each other. The manufacturing method includes the steps of depositing mixed particles of the metal particles and the inorganic compound particles on a surface of the base material in a film shape; resistance-heating the mixed particles by current-passing while pressurized in a thickness direction; diffusion-bonding the metal particles each other; and the metallic portion and the base material each other.

A cast component includes a cast structure having a primary geometry formed by a mold. Also included is a structural deposit formed by cold spraying one or more layers of powdered material on an outer surface of the cast structure, the structural deposit defining at least one feature of the overall outer geometry of the cast component in addition to the primary geometry. Also provided are methods of manufacturing the cast component.

A coating process comprising applying to a surface a coating composition consisting essentially of an alkali metal silicate and an aqueous liquid phase having dispersed therein solid aluminum particles to form on the surface a wet coating; and drying said wet coating: under conditions which convert said wet coating to an electrically conductive, corrosion-resistant, solid coating; or under conditions which form a solid coating which is not electrically conductive (non-conductive) and thereafter treating said non-conductive coating under conditions which convert said non-conductive coating to an electrically conductive, corrosion-resistant coating.

The invention relates to the application of electrically conductive bus bars onto a low-emissivity coating of glass. A method of applying electrically conductive bus bars onto a low-emissivity surface of glass is performed by gas dynamic cold spray method with the aid of a spraying nozzle of a gas dynamic spraying apparatus. The method comprises: providing in the gas dynamic spraying apparatus an estimated bulk weight of a powder, sufficient for spraying the powder over the entire length of the bus bar; moving the spraying nozzle to a beginning point of the bus bar without supplying the sprayed powder into the nozzle, and upon positioning the moving nozzle at the beginning point of the bus bar, supplying the sprayed powder into the spraying nozzle and moving the spraying nozzle with a constant speed from the beginning point to an end point of the bus bar. Upon reaching the end point of the bus bar, the movement of the nozzle is reversed towards the beginning point of the bus bar with a speed greater than the speed of the nozzle from the beginning point to the end point of the bus bar.