Electrochemical corrosion study of diamond-like carbon films containing crystalline diamond nanoparticles

• Grant number: 13/17415-9
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: October 01, 2013
• End date: September 30, 2014
• Field of knowledge: Engineering - Materials and Metallurgical Engineering - Nonmetallic Materials
• Principal Investigator: Fernanda Roberta Marciano
• Grantee: Marília Sierra Drumond da Costa
• Host Institution: Instituto de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento (IP&D). Universidade do Vale do Paraíba (UNIVAP). São José dos Campos , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 11/20345-7 - Study of nanoparticle-incorporated diamond-like carbon films for biomedical applications, AP.JP

Abstract

This project has an innovator and emergent character in biomedical area because presents the production and characterization of nanoparticle-incorporated diamond-like carbon (DLC) films in order to cover orthopedic alloys. The DLC films will be produced using plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition technique and crystalline diamond (NCD) nanoparticles will be incorporated in their bulk. Commercial biomedical alloys will be the substrates. The films will be characterizated using electrochemical assays to evaluate the anticorrosive effects using simulated body fluid. This project hopes prove the anticorrosive effects in order to enable the use of DLC films in biomedical applications.