A part includes a base material, a colored layer, an intermediate layer, and a water-repellent-surface layer. The colored layer contains 35 at % to 99 at % of C, 0 at % to less than 40 at % of Cr, 0 at % to less than 15 at % of N, and more than 0 at % to less than 15 at % of O. The intermediate layer contains at least one metal atom selected from Cr, Zr, and Si; and an oxygen atom. The intermediate layer exhibits a sputtering time of 0.5 minutes or more to 9 minutes or less.

Provided is a thixomolding material including a metal body that contains Mg as a main component, and a coating portion that is adhered to a surface of the metal body via a binder and contains C particles containing C as a main component. A mass fraction of the C particles in a total mass of the metal body and the C particles is 5.0 mass % or more and 40.0 mass % or less. The binder may contain waxes. The C particles may be graphite particles.

Provided herein is a hydrogen permeation barrier coating, a coated substrate, and methods of coating a substrate.

Embodiments of this application provide an electronic device, a rotating shaft, a laminated composite material, and a method for manufacturing a laminated composite material. The laminated composite material includes at least two material layers that form the laminated composite material, and the at least two material layers include a first material layer and a second material layer adjacent to each other. The first material layer uses a first metal material, yield strength of the first metal material is greater than 200 Mpa, and an elongation rate of the first metal material is greater than 6%. The second material layer uses a first composite material, and the first composite material includes a second metal material and diamond particles. In this way, heat conduction performance and heat dissipation performance of the rotating shaft are improved while fracture-resistant performance and wear-resistant performance of the rotating shaft are ensured, thereby improving user experience.

A surface-treated steel sheet including a steel sheet, a zinc-based plated layer, and a chemical conversion treatment layer that contains Si, C, O and P, and has a C concentration of 20.0 mass % or more, an O concentration of 15.0 mass % or more, a Si concentration of 10.0 mass % or more, and a P concentration of 0.10 mass % or more. When t is a thickness of the chemical conversion treatment layer, an area from a surface to a position of t/10 from the surface is a surface layer region, an area from the position of 9t/10 from the surface to an interface between the treatment layer and the plated layer is an interface side region, and a region sandwiched therebetween is an intermediate region. A maximum value of a P concentration of the surface layer region is 1.5 times to 5.0 times the average P concentration of an intermediate region.

A method for surface treatment of a metal material in a powder state is provided, the method including obtaining a powder formed from a plurality of particles of the metal material to be treated; and subjecting the powder to an ion implantation process by directing a beam of singly-charged or multi-charged ions towards an outer surface of the particles, the beam being produced by a source of singly-charged or multi-charged ions, whereby the particles have an overall spherical shape with a radius (R). There is also provided a material in a powder state formed from a plurality of particles having a ceramic outer layer and a metal core, the particles having an overall spherical shape.