Meaning of hardcoat | Babel Free

Definitions

A coating that provides a hard, protective layer.

countable, uncountable

Examples

“Another transparent material for passivation is silicon nitride, Si₃N₄, that also acts as hardcoat.”

“Such brute-force tactics generally fail for hardcoats on flexible substrates and there seems to be no correlation between scratch resistance and modulus once a certain minimum modulus (~1 GPa) has been reached.”

“Super Thin Glass: SAIC of McLean, Virginia, and NREL have been developing a front surface mirror concept with a hardcoat protective layer. The material uses an ion-beam-assisted deposition (IBAD) process to deposit the very hard (cleanable), dense (protective) alumina topcoat.”

CEFR level