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The Study Of The Ua Developed Ni Doped Dlc

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The UA developed Ni doped DLC solves the problem of compatibility of DLC coatings with lubricant additives for many applications including gears. The coating makes gears much more durable and long lasting in addition to improving efficiency by reducing friction losses.
Now compatible with fully formulated lubricants, given the properties of DLC (please refer to technology description) our coating outperforms other coating technologies such as nitride based coatings.
The coating can be produced with current production systems capable of producing regular type DLC coatings with no additional cost. Therefore, the UA developed DLC has no inhibition, in terms of capital cost, to replace regular DLC coatings.
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The technology described above, can be utilized to solve the critical problems that are being faced by various components for different applications. However, considering the addressable issues that are vital to the industry at this point and the primary reason for developing the coating at UA TESL Laboratory, the gear market was chosen as the primary market for the coating. The gear market is a multifaceted market, where the initial identified application was gears for automotive industry.
The massive demand for gears in automotive industry constitutes a major percentage of the global gear industry market. This was considered to be the primary target market for this technology.
However, customer interviews revealed that there are some issues with the applicability of the coating technology to automotive industry considering cost and production issues. Furthermore, it was understood that there is a huge potential in aerospace and renewable energy markets for this particular technology, where cost and production issues are not a concern.

5. IP Analysis

A provisional patent for the described technology was filed with the concerned authority. The technology was developed keeping in mind the most concerned or pressing problem that is being faced by the industry. The well-known DLC coating is very good in reducing friction and wear resistance as well. However, when DLC was applied to the components where the

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