2018 Volume 63 Issue 1 Pages 3-10
Recently, a lot of fundamental and applied researches, and developments have been extensively conducted on excellent tribological properties of functional carbon coatings such as DLC and CNx. These activities promoted the development of new coating technologies for functional carbon coatings. In Tribologist (Vol.58, No.8) published in 2013, special topic “Tribology of Hard Carbon coatings” was arranged, where Dr. Kano contributed an article titled with “Research Trend for Tribology of Hard Carbon Coatings”. In his article, which was written for the same purpose of this article, the latest trend of functional carbon coatings in the field of tribology before 2013 are well summarized. Therefore, in this article, I try to focus on the new things and progress in the same field after 2013 as much as possible.
