A heat-resistant molybdenum alloy of this invention comprises a first phase containing Mo as a main component and a second phase comprising a MoSiB-based intermetallic compound particle phase, wherein the balance is an inevitable impurity and wherein the Si content is 0.05 mass % or more and 0.80 mass % or less and the B content is 0.04 mass % or more and 0.60 mass % or less.

Provided is a zinc-based plated steel sheet having a post-treated coating filmed thereon including: a steel sheet; a zinc plated layer formed on the steel sheet; and a post-treated coating formed on the plated layer, wherein the atomic ratio (O/M) of oxygen (O) to metals (M) contained in the post-treated coating is greater than 2 and less than 20, and a method for post-treating a zinc-based plated steel sheet. According to this, the zinc-based plated steel sheet having the post-treated coating formed thereon has the effects excellent in lubricity, weldability, adhesiveness, film-removing property and paintability. As the method of post-treating a zinc-based plated steel sheet of the present invention employs a simple coating method irrespective of the kind of plating layer, the process is simple and economical and the process operation cost is low.

A heat-resistant member comprising a molybdenum alloy that comprises a first phase containing Mo as a main component and a second phase comprising a MoSiB-based intermetallic compound particle phase, wherein the balance is an inevitable impurity and wherein the Si content is 0.05 mass % or more and 0.80 mass % or less and the B content is 0.04 mass % or more and 0.60 mass % or less. The member may be coated.

Provide is a metal-coated liquid-crystal polymer film that is suitable for microcircuit processing and capable of reducing the transmission loss of circuits. The metal-coated liquid-crystal polymer film comprising: a polymer film comprising a polymer film main body capable of forming an optically anisotropic melt phase; a first metal layer layered on at least one side of the polymer film main body; and a second metal layer layered on the first metal layer, wherein in an analysis of oxygen concentration in a thickness direction using XPS, the average oxygen concentration of the first metal layer is 2.5 atom % or less.

The present invention relates generally to a coated jewelry article or a coated component of a jewelry article, comprising a jewelry article or a component of a jewelry article, a first metallic coating, and a second metallic coating.

A plated steel sheet (1) includes: a steel sheet (2); a pre-plating layer (3) on at least one surface of the steel sheet (2), the pre-plating layer (3) containing Al, Cu, In, Zn, Sn, or Sb, or any combination thereof; and a plating layer (4) of a ZnNi alloy on the pre-plating layer (3), a Ni content of the ZnNi alloy being 5 mass % to 15 mass %. A coating weight of the pre-plating layer (3) is 0.5 g/m.sup.2 or more, and a coating weight of the plating layer (4) is 5 g/m.sup.2 or more.

A bi-layer protective coating for a metal component, the bi-layer protective coating comprising a bond coating that is metallurgically fused to a substrate of the metal component, wherein the bond coating comprises one or more rare metals and a top coating that is mechanically bonded to the bond coating, wherein the top coating comprises one or more metal oxides, or one or more metal carbides.

In various embodiments, electronic devices such as touch-panel displays incorporate interconnects featuring a conductor layer and, disposed above the conductor layer, a capping layer comprising an alloy of Cu and one or more refractory metal elements selected from the group consisting of Ta, Nb, Mo, W, Zr, Hf, Re, Os, Ru, Rh, Ti, V, Cr, and Ni.

Multilayer material comprising a zirconium-based substrate covered with a multilayer coating, the multilayer coating comprising metallic layers composed of identical or different substances chosen from chromium, a chromium alloy or a ternary alloy of the NbCrTi system. Such a material has improved resistance to oxidation in accident conditions of a nuclear reactor. The invention also relates to a multilayer coating, a part composed wholly or partly of the multilayer material or of the multilayer coating, as well as the method for manufacturing the multilayer material such as for example a magnetron cathodic sputtering process.

A plastics film with improved energy-shielding properties, suitable for application on a transparent or translucent surface, such as glass, and which is at least 50% transparent for visible light, further characterized in that it includes at least one plastic carrier layer with on top thereof as a functional layer a metallic layer consisting of antimony and/or arsenic together with indium and/or gallium, wherein the plastics film contains a total of indium (In), gallium (Ga), antimony (Sb) and arsenic (As) together, which are present as an alloy, such as indium andmonide, gallium andmonide, indium arsenide, indium gallium arsenide and/or gallium arsenide, of at least 4.0 ppm by weight and at most 25.0 ppm by weight. A glass plate to which the film is attached, is described as are objects provided with the glass plate. Methods are described for the production of the film, the glass plate and the objects.