Dr brant Canet and Janet Hampikian are hoping to improve the durability of thermal barrier coatings used in land-based.

Dr brant Canet and Janet Hampikian are hoping to improve the durability of thermal barrier coatings used in land-based, power-generating gas turbines to help make them operate more efficiently, thus reducing the world's staff on fossil fuels. The scheme at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, incorporates thin films into thermal-barrier coatings. The films are synthesized by the agency of combustion chemical-vapor deposition (CCVD) -- a technique unraveled at Georgia Tech by means of alumnus Dr. Andrew Hunt.

The researchers are studying several marks of thin films for incorporation

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