TEHRAN (ANA)- Iranian scientists at a knowledge-based company developed a diamond-like carbon coating system which is used for coating industrial parts and jewelry industry.
Aboutaleb Moradi, the managing director of the knowledge-based company, elaborated on the coating system, saying, “Diamond is one of the most precious and hardest materials in nature which has different uses in the industry with a market of about $90 billion.”
“In addition to ornamental and jewelry applications, diamonds are coated in industrial parts that are under very difficult conditions and may experience a lot of wear and erosion due to environmental conditions. Also, there is a need for diamond medium in other fields like sensors and many optical devices,” he added.
“Therefore, we need methods to grow diamonds in the laboratory. One of the systems that can create different diamond shapes on different surfaces is the plasma environment which has been developed by our company,” Moradi said.
In a relevant development last March, researchers at an Iranian knowledge-based company had also developed an automated coating machine which is not only half the price of imported rivals but also renders better after-sale service.
Hassan Jahdi, the executive chief of the project to produce JHDI/Q4 coating machine at the Iranian knowledge-based company said that their firm has focused its activity on manufacturing coating equipment and providing coating services on ultra-hard surfaces using PVD method.
“Our JHDI/Q4 coating machine is used for coating ultra-hard compounds in order to use it in hardware and tools. This technology provides the possibility of creating different combinations on different structures,” Jahdi said.
"There are some other compounds such as carbon, composite, metal and even diamond-like structures whose surface can be coated with this technology," he said, adding, "We used the fourth generation of cathodes in this device, before this, in the three different generations that we previously produced, cathodes were optimized compared to the previous generation.”
“We are trying to upgrade all modules to make the device, from the vacuum system, O-rings to door hinges. Three data-x-items that are very important to us are vacuum chamber and carousel, cathodes and software,” the managing director of the Iranian firm added.
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Source: ANA