Abstract: A ceramic coating process comprises introducing a suspension including a fine ceramic particulate suspended in a liquid carrier into a plasma torch. The method includes melting the fine ceramic particulate in the plasma torch; propelling the fine ceramic particulate toward a substrate; and forming a coating on the substrate, the coating comprises splats of the fine ceramic particulate.

Abstract: The metallurgical composition of a machine surface may be determined. Based on the composition of the surface layer and its substrate materials, a mixture of pure metal nanoparticles, each coated with a monomolecular organic layer adsorbed on its surface can be mixed with catalysts, reaction initiators, and/or other necessary ingredients for the repair action of the machine surface, depending on the specific machine, operational type, and/or the nature of the damage. The nanoparticles are applied to the machine surface, the organic monolayer wears away from the nanoparticles under shear stresses and the nanoparticles adhere to the machine surface to form a repair layer on the machine surface, thereby providing a repaired surface.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods for producing an ultra-dense and ultra-smooth ceramic coating. A method includes feeding a slurry of ceramic particles into a plasma sprayer. The plasma sprayer generates a stream of particles directed toward the substrate, forming a ceramic coating on the substrate upon contact.

Abstract: A method of making a light weight component is provided. The method including the steps of: forming a metallic foam core into a desired configuration; and applying an external metallic shell to an exterior surface of the metallic foam core after it has been formed into the desired configuration.

Abstract: A method for performing gap fill of a feature on a substrate includes the following operations: (a) moving the substrate into a process chamber; (b) performing a plurality of cycles of an ALD process; (c) purging process gases from the ALD process from the process chamber; (d) performing a plasma treatment on the substrate by introducing a fluorine-containing gas into the process chamber and applying RF power to the fluorine-containing gas to generate a fluorine plasma in the process chamber; (e) purging process gases from the plasma treatment from the process chamber; (f) repeating operations (b) through (e) until a predefined number of cycles has been performed.

Abstract: A plating method includes a first mask forming step of ejecting a UV-curable ink in the form of ink droplets from an inkjet head so as to have the ejected ink droplets land on a plating target object and to form a first plating mask on the plating target object, a catalyst applying step of applying a catalyst for deposition of plating material to the plating target object on which the first plating mask is formed, a second mask forming step of having the ink droplets land on the first plating mask so as to form a second plating mask on the first plating mask, a plating step of performing electroless plating to the plating target object subsequent to the second mask forming step, and a mask removing step of removing the first plating mask and the second plating mask from the plating target object subsequent to the plating step.

Abstract: In a microvolume-liquid dispenser, there is performed an application operation for dispensing a microvolume liquid present in an amount measured in nanoliters or picoliters from a nozzle tip-end opening and applying the microvolume liquid to an application surface. When the application operation has not been performed over a time interval longer than a set time interval ta, a tip-end liquid surface of an application liquid in the nozzle tip-end opening is caused to vibrate at a high amplitude that includes the position of a liquid surface height from immediately before application in the case of application at equal time intervals. The subsequently performed application operation is performed at a point in time when the liquid surface height has returned to the liquid surface height. The operation for applying the microvolume application liquid can be precisely performed in the same manner as when application is performed at equal time intervals.

Abstract: A method for recycling a substrate process component of a processing chamber is provided. In one example, the recycling process includes retrieving a reference dimension for the substrate process component. The substrate process component includes a side wall having a bottom surface, an outer surface, a pre-defined wall thickness between the bottom surface and the outer surface, and a residue layer. The reference dimension corresponds to the pre-defined wall thickness. The recycling process includes machining the substrate process component with a mechanical cutting tool. The machining includes securing the substrate process component to a work piece holder and passing the mechanical cutting tool across the outer surface in a machining operation controlled by a controller to remove the residue layer. The controller uses the reference dimension to control the machining operation so that the substrate process component has the reference dimension after removal of the residue layer.

Abstract: Provided herein is a method to printed electronics, and more particularly related to printed electronics on flexible, porous substrates. The method includes applying a coating compound comprising poly (4-vinylpyridine) (P4VP) and SU-8 dissolved in an organic alcohol solution to one or more surface of a flexible, porous substrate, curing the porous substrate at a temperature of at least 130° C. such that the porous substrate is coated with a layer of said coating compound, printing a jet of a transition metal salt catalyst solution onto one or more printing sides of the flexible, porous substrate to deposit a transition metal salt catalyst onto the one or more printing sides, and submerging the substrate in an electroless metal deposition solution to deposit the metal on the flexible, porous substrate, wherein the deposited metal induces the formation of one or more three-dimensional metal-fiber conductive structures within the flexible, porous substrate.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a surface treatment method of a ceramic powder using microwave plasma in order to enhance flowability. The surface treatment method can be applied to a ceramic powder having a small particle size of 45 ?m or less and can significantly enhance flowability while reducing an influence on a particle size compared to a conventional method. Consequently, the ceramic particles surface-treated by the above-described surface treatment method can be formed to have a smooth and dense coating film without pores during spray coating.

Abstract: The invention provides a method of burying trenches of a sample comprises at least the steps of: from the sample having the trenches extending from one surface into a depth direction, cutting a sample piece of a small part including the trenches; and by irradiating an electron beam toward the inside of the trenches from a side surface extending along the depth direction of the sample piece and simultaneously injecting a compound gas into the inside of the trenches from openings on the side of the one surface of the trench, decomposing the compound gas with secondary electrons generated by irradiation of the electron beam and depositing constituents of the compound gas within the trenches. Therefore, the method can bury the trenches uniformly without generating cavities within the trenches even if the trenches of the sample piece have a high aspect ratio deep in a depth direction.

Abstract: A method of performing electroless electrochemical atomic layer deposition is provided and includes: providing a substrate including an exposed upper metal layer; exposing the substrate to a first precursor solution to create a sacrificial metal monolayer on the exposed upper metal layer via underpotential deposition, where the first precursor solution is an aqueous solution including a reducing agent; subsequent to the forming of the sacrificial metal monolayer, rinsing the substrate; subsequent to the rinsing of the substrate, exposing the substrate to a second precursor solution to replace the sacrificial metal monolayer with a first deposition layer; and subsequent to replacing the sacrificial metal monolayer with the first deposition layer, rinsing the substrate. The exposure of the substrate to the first precursor solution and the exposure of the substrate to the second precursor solution are electroless processes.

Abstract: A method of treating an elongate wood member is provided, the wood member having an outer surface and a cross-section. The method includes (1) forming a plurality of holes into the outer surface of the wood member; (2) introducing a treatment composition which includes a boron-containing compound into the plurality of holes; and (3) steam treating the wood member for a duration of from about 15 minutes to about 24 hours, the steam having a temperature of from about 80° C. to about 150° C. The steam treatment causes the boron-containing compound to diffuse from the formed holes into the cross-section of the wood member.

Abstract: A flame retardant fabric wherein a flame retardant composition is applied to the fabric while the fabric is being stretched. Preferably, the fabric is a blend of cotton and a thermoset. Carbon fibers may be included to impart anti-static properties. The present invention includes a method of treating a woven or knitted fabric of cotton blended with a thermoset, or with a thermoplastic, or with both with a flame retardant composition comprising the steps of stretching the fabric up to 12% greater than its un-stretched dimensions and, while so stretched, applying a flame retardant to the fabric and then allowing the fabric to shrink back to its approximate original dimensions. The flame retardant may either be applied to the fabric or the fabric may be immersed in an aqueous bath containing flame retardants.

Abstract: A method and a device for plasma treatment of containers by means of a plurality of treatment segments each having at least one plasma station on a plasma module comprising a plasma wheel, wherein, during an operational malfunction and/or a cut-out in at least one of the plasma stations, the process gas, before being supplied to the plasma station in question, is carried off into the respective plasma chamber and/or the container held therein, by means of at least one bypass line.

Abstract: To provide thermal spray slurry capable of forming a thermal sprayed coating having a high adhesion strength on a thermal spray target surface of a substrate, disclosed is thermal spray slurry for forming a thermal sprayed coating on the thermal spray target surface by spraying the thermal spray slurry on the thermal spray target surface of the substrate, the thermal spray slurry containing: thermal spray particles having a 50% particle diameter D50 equal to or larger than 1 ?m and equal to or smaller than 5 ?m in volume-based cumulative particle diameter distribution; and a dispersion medium in which the thermal spray particles are dispersed. In addition, a ratio D10/Ra between a surface roughness Ra (unit: ?m) of the thermal spray target surface and a 10% particle diameter D10 (unit: ?m) of the thermal spray particles in the volume-based cumulative particle diameter distribution satisfies a formula “0.4<D10/Ra?0.9”.

Abstract: A ceramic coating is coated on a body of an article, wherein the ceramic coating includes Y2O3, Y4Al2O9, Y3Al5O12, or a solid-solution of Y2O3 mixed with at least one of ZrO2, Al2O3, HfO2, Er2O3, Nd2O3, Nb2O5, CeO2, Sm2O3 or Yb2O3. The ceramic coating is applied to the body by a method including providing a plasma spraying system having a plasma current in the range of between about 100 A to about 1000 A, positioning a torch standoff of the plasma spraying system a distance from the body between about 60 mm and about 250 mm, flowing a first gas through the plasma spraying system at a rate of between about 30 L/min and about 400 L/min, and plasma spray coating the body to form a ceramic coating, wherein splats of the coating are amorphous and have a pancake shape.

Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a fuel system including a fuel filler pipe, an anti-siphoning device, and a fuel tank. In one example, a manufacturing method may include internally welding an anti-siphon device to a fuel filler pipe, applying a metal coating to the welded device and pipe including the internal welds, and externally welding the coated pipe including the device to a fuel tank. The metal coating to the filler pipe, the device and the internal welds may be applied by an electroless plating process but the electroless plating may not be applied to the external welds.

Abstract: A process for manufacturing a coated metal strip having a metallic corrosion protection coating is provided. The process includes passing a metal strip through a molten metal bath comprising from 2 to 8 wt % aluminum, 0 to 5 wt % magnesium, up to 0.3 wt % additional elements, and a balance including zinc and inevitable impurities, to yield a molten metal coated metal strip, wiping the molten metal coated metal strip with a nozzle spraying a gas on either side of the molten metal coated metal strip and cooling the coating in a controlled manner until the coating has completely solidified, to obtain the coated metal strip. A temperature of the molten metal bath is from 350 to 700° C., and the cooling is conducted at a rate less than 15° C./s between a temperature on leaving a unit where the wiping occurs and a start of solidification of the coating, and then at a rate greater than or equal to 15° C./s between a start and an end of solidification of the coating.

Abstract: An Additive Package is provided to adjust the cure properties of a two-part bonding filler across a temperature range of from 4 and 44 degrees Celsius. A low temperature additive speeds a cure rate between 4 and 15 degrees Celsius and a high temperature additive slows down a cure rate between 25 and 44 degrees Celsius. The amount of Additive Package is varied to account for the desired cure properties. The Additive Package includes a first unsaturated polyester resins with an average degree of unsaturation of 70-100 percent based on total acid and anhydride monomer content. A process for repairing a vehicle body is provided using the Additive Package. A kit for accomplishing repairs in an after-market repair setting is also provided.