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Article Citation - WoS: 18Citation - Scopus: 22Microstructural and Mechanical Characterization of Nitrogen Ion Implanted Layer on 316l Stainless Steel(Elsevier Ltd., 2009) Öztürk, OrhanNitrogen ion implantation can be used to improve surface mechanical properties (hardness, wear, friction) of stainless steels by modifying the near-surface layers of these materials. In this study, a medical grade FeCrNi alloy (316L stainless steel plate) was implanted with 85 keV nitrogen ions to a high fluence of 1 × 1018N2+ / cm2 at a substrate temperature <200 °C in an industrial implantation facility. The N implanted layer microstructures, thicknesses and strengths were studied by a combination of X-ray diffraction (XRD), conversion electron Mössbauer spectroscopy (CEMS), atomic force microscopy (AFM) and nanohardness measurements. AFM was also used for the surface roughness analysis of the implanted as well as polished materials. The CEMS analysis indicate that the N implanted layer is ∼200 nm thick and is composed of ε-(Fe,Cr,Ni)2+xN-like nitride phase with mainly paramagnetic characteristics. The nanohardness measurements clearly indicate an enhanced hardness behaviour for the N implanted layer. It is found that the implanted layer hardness is increased by a factor of 1.5 in comparison to that of the substrate material. The increased hardness resulting from nitrogen implantation is attributed to the formation of ε nitride phase.Article Citation - WoS: 16Citation - Scopus: 18Microstructural, Mechanical, and Corrosion Characterization of Nitrogen-Implanted Plastic Injection Mould Steel(Elsevier Ltd., 2005) Öztürk, Orhan; Onmuş, Ortaç; Willeamson, Don L.Nitrogen-ion implantation can be used to improve the wear and corrosion behaviour of moulds for plastic injection by modifying the near-surface layers of these materials. In this study, an FeCr ferritic stainless steel (X36CrMo17, similar to AISI-420F) was ion implanted with 85 keV nitrogen ions to low and high doses of 2×1017 and 1×1018 ions/cm2 at a substrate temperature <200 °C in an industrial implantation facility. The N-implanted layer microstructures, thicknesses, and hardnesses were studied by a combination of symmetric and grazing incidence X-ray diffraction (XRD and GIXRD), conversion electron Mössbauer spectroscopy (CEMS), cross-sectional scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and nanohardness measurements. The friction, wear, and corrosion behaviour were investigated by a pin-on-disc tribo tester and a salt spray corrosion analysis method. The XRD, CEMS, and SEM analyses indicate that the N-implanted layers are ∼0.05-0.08 μm thick and are composed of ε-(Fe,Cr,Mn)2+xN with paramagnetic and magnetic characteristics. The treated layer shows nearly two times better corrosion resistance than does the substrate. The wear and nanohardness measurements indicate that the wear behaviour and the N-implanted layer hardness are dose dependent and the latter is increased by more than a factor of 1.6 for the high-dose implanted specimen in comparison with that of the substrate material.Article Citation - WoS: 15Citation - Scopus: 15Microstructural, Mechanical, and Corrosion Characterization of Plasma-Nitrided Plastic Injection Mould Steel(Elsevier Ltd., 2005) Öztürk, Orhan; Onmuş, Ortaç; Willeamson, Don L.Plasma nitriding can be used to improve wear and corrosion behaviour of moulds for plastic injection by modifying the near-surface layers of these materials. In this study, a ferritic stainless steel (X36CrMo17) was plasma nitrided at 520-540 °C for 15-18 h under various gas mixtures of N2+H2 in an industrial nitriding facility. The nitrided layer microstructures, thicknesses, and strengths were studied by X-ray diffraction (XRD), conversion electron and X-ray Mössbauer spectroscopies (CEMS and CXMS), cross-sectional scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and cross-sectional nanohardness measurements. The corrosion behaviour was investigated by a salt spray method. Combined Mössbauer, XRD, and SEM analyses demonstrate that (Fe,Cr,Mn)-nitrides, the ε- and γ′-nitrides, the Fe3C-like carbide, and CrN are distributed in the top nitrided layers of several micron thickness. The CEMS and CXMS analyses clearly show the nearly complete decomposition of the surface and deeper layers into phase separated mixtures of pure bcc-Fe, (Fe,Cr,Mn)-nitrides, and CrN. The nitriding conditions with the gas composition N2/H2=1 produces the thickest nitrided layer (∼135 μm) with enhanced corrosion protection. The nanohardness of the surface layers is found to be plateau-shaped and increased by about a factor of three in comparison to that of the substrate material.Article Citation - WoS: 24Citation - Scopus: 29Thermal Stability of the High-N Solid-Solution Layer on Stainless Steel(Elsevier Ltd., 2002) Öztürk, Orhan; Williamson, Don L.Low-energy, high-flux N ion implantation into austenitic stainless steel held at approximately 400 °C results in dramatic improvements in the tribological properties due to sufficiently large N layer thicknesses and high-N-content solid solution phase. γN. In this paper, post-ion beam processing via isothermal annealing of a low-energy (0.7 keV), high-flux (2.5 mA/cm2) N implanted fee 304 stainless steel held at 400 °C has been investigated by Mössbauer spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction (XRD). Post-implantation annealing at 400 °C demonstrated the metastability and showed that the magnetic γN produced at lower ion energies and higher fluxes transformed systematically to a paramagnetic γN phase with less N content and less lattice expansion, thereby destabilizing the magnetic state of γN. The isothermal annealing results in much thicker γN layers but with less N in solid solution due to the N diffusion into the substrate. Based on the XRD data, the N diffusivity under isothermal annealing conditions is found to be D = 2X10-13 cm2/s at 400 °C, consistent with a model which explains that the trapping by Cr atoms in the stainless steel becomes more effective when N contents are low relative to the Cr concentration ( ~ 19 at.% in 304 stainless steel).