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Table 1.

Structure, mechanical and thermal properties of some hard coating materials (Ref. [16] and references therein).

Material Hardness (kg mm−2) Young’s modulus (kN mm−2) Thermal expansion coefficient (μm/m K−1) Thermal conductivity (W/mK) Melting point or decomposition temperature (°C)
TiN 2000 < 3680 440 9.35 20–28 2949
TiB2 3370 480 8.0 25 2900
VN 1500 460 8.1 11.3 2177
ZrN 1500 510 7.2 20.5 2982
CrN 1100 400 2.3–3.5 10.8 1500
Cr3C2 1300 400 10.3 n.a. 1810
Al2O3 4000 400 9.0 25–30 2300

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