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Quanshun Luo

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Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom

Dr Quanshun Luo's research interests are in broad areas of materials science and engineering with expertise in characterization of materials and surfaces using X-ray diffraction, electron microscopy and related X-ray/electron spectroscopic techniques. Most of his research has been in metallurgy, manufacturing industry, surface engineering technologies and tribology, with more than 100 research publications. Recently his research involves metallic materials of medical implants.

Roles

  • Industrial consultancy and collaboration
  • Research
  • Supervisor of UG, MSc and PhD students
  • Laboratory management (TEM)

Research interests, expertise and impact

  • Impact
    • The research in ultrahigh strength steel (TSB Smart Award) was highly recognised by TSB (Innovate UK) with a video film produced after the project. The project is also recognised by ACES as a successful industrial R&D project, with posters displayed in ACES and MERI lab;
    • Several invited/keynote/plenary presentations in surface engineering and tribology;
    • Guest Editor of journal issues and Chair of conference sessions;
    • Invited visits to overseas universities, institutes, and companies.
    • A good profile in Web of Science (h-index 21), SHURA (>11k downloads), Research Gate.
  • Advanced Steels
    • Through developing novel heat treatments, the strength and toughness properties can be further improved as compared to the conventional quenching-tempering (Q-T) and lower-bainite austempering treatments. Ultrahigh strength spring/structural steels for automotive/aerospace industries;
    • Being sponsored by Innovate-UK and industry, two novel treatments have been developed, including quenching and double tempering (Q-T-T) treatment and partial austempering treatment, which are used to manufacture ultrahigh strength spring steel (torsion bars of large vehicles) and wear resistant steel (metal-cutting shear blades);
    • Austenitic stainless steels for medical applications (Sheffield Children Hospital, Swan Morton);
    • Fundamental study on the carbon partitioning behaviour in the decomposition of under-cooled austenite.
  • Nano-structured coatings and surface treatments
    • Collaborations with Chinese Academy of Sciences and Guangdong University of Technology, to study the friction and wear properties, microstructure, and wear mechanisms of nanocomposite superhard coatings fabricated by plasma-enhanced PVD;
    • Plasma nitriding of austenitic stainless steels for combined corrosion resistance and wear resistance, collaboration with Miba Coatings Group;
    • Advanced characterization of nano-scale domains.
  • Industrial consultancy
    • Developing research and consultancy collaboration to support regional industry, including the delivery of government-funded projects such as Sheffield Innovation Project (SIP), Innovation Future;
    • Failure investigations of industrial materials, including fatigue and fracture, wear and friction, metallurgical defects and their prevention;
    • Materials analyses and testing by means of SEM, XRD, TEM, macro/micro hardness, tribo-tests, etc., including high-precision residual stress measurement.
  • Advanced characterization techniques
    • Skills in the operation and data interpretation of various materials characterization techniques, including analytical SEM, analytical TEM (SAD, EDX and EELS), XRD, 3D microscopy (IFM);
    • Advanced quantitative XRD, including a novel numerical peak-fitting method for comprehensive crystallographic analyses of hardened steels and the analysis of nano-clusters
    • Development of cross-sectional TEM sample preparation for nano-scale surface analysis, e.g. thin films and coatings, nano-scale tribofilms, etc.

Research projects

  • Current projects
    • Academic supervisor of KTP project: Wear resistant steel blades (Tyzack Machine Knives Ltd, UK);
    • Project leader: Biomechanical analysis of explanted, failed telescopic rods in skeletally immature patients (NHS, Sheffield Children Hospital)
    • Director of Studies: Corrosion resistance and tribological properties of plasma nitrided austenitic stainless steel, PhD student sponsored by Nigeria government, collaboration with Miba Coatings Ltd;
    • Director of Studies: Ultrahigh strength spring steel for torsion bars of large vehicles, sponsored by industry, PhD student sponsored by Tinsley Bridge Ltd;
    • Senior Researcher: Sheffield Innovation Project, sponsored by EU Regional Development.
    • Completed Projects
      • Project leader: Knowledge Exchange project on superalloys for thermal power generation (Doosan Power System, UK);
      • Project leader: Contracted research on Optimised heat treatments of surgical blades (Swann Morton Ltd, UK);
      • Project leader: Consultancy on TEM analyses of ceramic fibre (Morgan Technical Ceramics Ltd, UK);
      • A large number of small contracted consultancy/research projects with UK industry, etc.

 

(1999-2006) Researcher (and programme-maker) of three EU research projects:

  • Advanced machining technologies of aerospace and aumototive aluminium alloys and titanium;
  • Duplex nitriding and PVD coatings;
  • Oxidation resistant coatings for thermal engines;
  • Innovative Coatings for Aerospace. Energy and Automotive Industry, "INNOVATIAL" a European Project supported within the Sixth Framework Programme for Research and Technical Development, NMP3-CT-2005-515844.
  • The European Commissions through the research project ‘Revolutionary New Steels, Coated and Designed for Cutting Tools to Machine Aluminium and Titanium alloys’ (No. GRD1-2001-40514)
  • Development of new-generation duplex coatings with improved performance. lower cost, and reduced environmental impact [G5ST-CT-2001-50075, NITROCOTE]
  • Industrial transfer of hard chrome replacement technology [FMBI9726 40, 1998-08-24 - 1999-08-23; BRITE EURAM BE-96-3305]

 

 

Conferences in recent years

2018-

Keynote Speaker & Co-organizer of a Focused Session: International Conference on Surfaces, Coatings and Interfaces, SurfCoat 2018, March 28-30, 2018, Incheon, Korea.

 

2017-

Oral presentation & Assessment Panel of Posters: Tribological properties and wear mechanisms of DC pulse plasma nitrided austenitic stainless steel in dry reciprocating sliding tests, 21st Int Conf. on Wear of Materials, 26-30 March 2017, Long Beach, CA, USA.

Invited visit to Southwest Research Institute, 22-25 March, 2017, San Antonio, TX, USA.

Keynote: Quantitative XRD in advanced materials research, British Crystallographic Association Spring Meeting 2017, Lancaster University, 10-13, April, 2017.

Invited Speaker & Assessment Panel of Oral Presentations: Characterization of short-range ordered domains using quantitative X-ray diffraction, The 4th International Symposium on the Hybrid Materials and Processing [HyMaP 2017], Pusan, Korea, 4-8 November 2017.

 

2016-

Oral: S Yang (presenter), Q Luo, H Sun, K Cooker, Physical and tribological properties of nitrided AISI 316 stainless steel balls, 2016 2nd Inter Conf Tribo Interf Eng. June 16-18, 2016, Chongqing, China.

 

2015 -

Oral presentation: Partia-isothermally-treated low alloy ultrahigh strength steel with martensitic/bainitic microstructure, 7th Int Conf High Strength Low Alloy Steels (HSLA Steels 2015), Hangzhou, China, Nov 11-13, 2015.

 

2014 -

Plenary lecturer in 1st Workshop on PVD Coatings for Cutting Tools, June 14-16, 2014, Guangzhou, China

Invited Speaker: The 3rd International Symposium on Hybrid Materials and Processing (HaMaP 2014) Nov 10-13, 2014, Pusan, Korea.

 

2013 -

Oral presentation: The 3rd International Congress of Nanoscience and nanotechnology, Xi'an, China.

Academic visits and invited seminars to (1) North-western Polytechnic University, Xi'An, and (2) Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang.

 

2012 -

Oral presenter (two papers) & Session Chair: The 20th Congress of International Federation for Heat Treatment and Surface Engineering, October 23-25, 2012  Beijing  China;

Invited visit & seminar: Beijing Institute of Aeronautical Materials, October 22, Beijing, China;

 

2011 -

Oral Presenter: International Conference on Wear of Materials, April 3-7, 2011, Philadelphia, USA.

Member of organising committee: Asian-European International Conference on Plasma Surface Engineering, September Dalian, China.

 

 

Reviewer/Editorial board

Editorial Board of journals:

2017: Smart Construction Research

2016-17: Guest Editor, Coatings: special issue 'Mechanical Behaviour of Coatings and Engineered Surfaces'

2016-: International Journal of Nanomedicine and Nanosurgery

2015-: International Scholarly Research Notices [https://www.hindawi.com/39267615/]

Reviewer of journals:

Surface and Coatings Technology; Coatings;

Journal of Alloys and Compounds; Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science; Metals; Materials Chemistry and Physics;

Wear; Tribology Letters; Tribology International; Journal of Engineering Tribology; Tribology - Materials, Surfaces & Interfaces;

 

Publications (full list)

Total

105

in English

64

in Chinese

41

SCI cited

45

Total SCI citations

965

SCI citations (by others)

863

SCI h-index

21

 

  1. Q. Luo, Characterization of short-range ordered domains using quantitative X-ray diffraction (invited presentation), Submitted to The 4th International Symposium on the Hybrid Materials and Processing [HyMaP 2017], Pusan, Korea, 4-8 November 2017.
  2. J. Zhang, H. Zhou, BH Gui, Q. Luo, HX Li, QM Wang, Influence of power pulse parameters on the microstructure and properties of the AlCrN coatings by a modulated pulsed power magnetron sputtering, Coatings, Accepted Nov 2017.
  3. E. Abbasi, Q. Luo, D. Owens, Cast study: wear mechanisms of NiCrVMo-steel and CrB-steel scrap shear blades, Wear, Accepted Nov2017.
  4. Q. Luo, S. Yang, Uncertainty of the X-ray Diffraction (XRD) sin2y Technique in Measuring Residual Stresses of Physical Vapor Deposition (PVD) Hard Coatings, Coatings 2017, 7, 128;
  5. Q Luo, M Kitchen, S Abubakri, Effect of austempering time on the microstructure and carbon partitioning of ultrahigh strength steel 56NiCrMoV7, Metals 2017, 7, 258.
  6. Q. Luo, O. Oluwafemi, M. Kitchen, S. Yang, Tribological properties and wear mechanisms of DC pulse plasma nitrided austenitic stainless steel in dry reciprocating sliding tests, Wear 376-377 (2017) 1640-1651, Oral presented in 21st Int Conf. on Wear of Materials, 26-30 March 2017, Long Beach, CA, USA.
  7. S. Yang, M. Kitchen, Q. Luo, D.N. Ievlev, K. E. Cooke, Effect of nitriding time on the structural evolution and properties of austenitic stainless steel nitrided using high power pulsed DC glow discharge Ar/N2 plasma, J. Coat. Sci. Technol. 3, 2016, 62-74. [DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.6000/2369-3355.2016.03.02.3 ]
  8. S. Yang, Q. Luo, H. Sun, M. Kitchen, K. Cook, Physical and tribological properties of nitrided AISI 316 stainless steel ball, MATEC Web of Conferences 77, 01037 (2016), ICMMR 2016 [DOI: 10.1051/matecconf/20167701037] Presented at: 2nd International conference on tribology and interface engineering (ICTIE2016), Chongqing, China, June 15-17, 2016.
  9. Q. Luo, A new XRD method to quantify plate and lath martensites of hardened medium-carbon steel, J Mater Eng Perform 25, 2016, 2170-2179.
  10. Q. Luo, S. Yang, Review Article: From micro to nano scales - recent progress in the characterization of nitrided austenitic stainless steels, Int. J. Nanomedicine and Nanosurgery, Vol. 1.1, 2015, on-line: http://dx.doi.org/10.16966/ijnn.101 .
  11. Q. Luo, M. Kitchen, V. Patel, M. Filleul, D. Owens, Partial-isothermally-treated low alloy ultrahigh strength steel with martensitic/bainitic microstructure, Proceedings HSLA Steels 2015, Microalloying 2015 & Offshore Engineering Steels 2015, The Chinese Society for Metals and Chinese Academy of Engineering, November 11-13, 2015, Hangzhou, China, TMS 2016, 433-438.
  12. Creating Ultra-High Strength Steels For Large Vehicles - An Interview With Quanshun Luo, http://www.azom.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=10772
  13. C. Ma, S.C. Wang, R. J. K. Wood, J. Zekonyte, Q. Luo, The hardness of porous nanocrystalline Co-Ni electrodeposits, Metals and Materials International, 19, 2013, 1187-1192.
  14. Q. Luo, S. Yang, K.E. Cooke, Hybrid HIPIMS and CFUBMS deposition of TiN coatings: deposition rate, structure and tribological properties, Surf. Coat. Technol. 236, 2013, 13-21.
  15. Q. Luo, M. Kitchen, V. Patel, S. Magowan, Carbon partitioning and structure evolution in the hardening treatments of high strength steel, Proceedings of the 20th Congress of International Federation for Heat Treatment and Surface Engineering, October 23-25, 2012  Beijing  China, p111-117.
  16. Q. Luo, S. Yang, K.E. Cooke, Structure and tribological properties of TiN coatings grown by hybrid HIPIMS and CFUBMS deposition, Proceedings of the 20th Congress of International Federation for Heat Treatment and Surface Engineering, October 23-25, 2012  Beijing  China, p508-514.
  17. Q. Luo, K. Chi, S. Li, P. Barnard, Microstructural Stability and Lattice Misfit Characterisations of Nimonic 263, Proceedings of the ASME 2012 Pressure Vessels & Piping Division Conference (PVP2012), Vol 6, PTS A & B, 197-206. July 15-19, 2012, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
  18. Q. Luo, S.C. Wang, Z. Zhou, L. Chen, Structure characterization and tribological study of magnetron sputtered nanocompositenc-TiAlV(N, C)/a-C coatings, J. Mater. Chem.21 (26),2011, 9746 - 9756.
  19. Q. Luo, Temperature dependent tribological properties of nano-structured TiAlN/VN coating under un-lubricated sliding conditions,Wear 271 (2011) 2058-2066. Int. Conf. Wear of Mater. April 3-7, 2011, Philadelphia, USA.
  20. Q. Luo, Tribofilms in solid lubricants, in Encyclopedia of Tribology, edit. Q. Jane Wang and Yip-Wah Chung, Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013, 10.1007/978-0-387-92897-5_1252, p3760-3767.
  21. K. Rourke, M. Ebrahim, Q. Luo, E.A. Wilson, Hump on upper shelf of ductile-brittle transition temperature curve of a plain carbon steel, Mater. Sci. Technol. 27, 2011, 693 - 695.
  22. Q. Luo, A.H. Jones, High-precision determination of residual stress of polycrystalline coatings using optimised XRD-sin2ψ technique, Surf. Coat. Technol. 205 (2010) 1403-1408.

[Presented in ICMCTF-2010, San Diego, USA, April 2010]

  1. Z. Zhou, W.M. Rainforth, Q. Luo, P.Eh. Hovsepian, J.J. Ojeda, M.E. Romero-Gonzalez, Wear and friction of TiAlN/VN coatings against Al2O3 in air at room and elevated temperatures, ActaMaterialia 58 (2010) 2912-2925.
  2. Q. Luo, Origin of friction in running-in sliding wear of nitride coatings, Tribo. Letters, 37, 2010, 529-539.
  3. Q. Luo, Z. Zhou, W. M. Rainforth, M. Bolton, Effect of tribofilm formation on the dry sliding friction and wear properties of magnetron sputtered TiAlCrYN coatings, Tribo. Letters, 34 (2009) 113-124.
  4. T. Savisalo, D.B. Lewis, Q. Luo, M. Bolton, P. Hovsepian, Structure of duplex CrN/NbN coatings and their performance against corrosion and wear,Surface and Coatings Technology 202 (2008) 1661-1667.
  5. Q. Luo, C. Schimpf, A. P. Ehiasarian, L. Chen, P. Eh. Hovsepian, Structure and wear mechanisms of nano-structured TiAlCN/VCN multilayer coatings,Plasma Process and Polymers, 4, 2007, S916 – S920. DOI: 10.1002/ppap.200732205.

[Presented in 10th International Conference of Plasma Surface Engineering, Gamisch, Germany, Sept. 2006].

  1. Q. Luo, Z. Zhou, W.M. Rainforth, P. Eh. Hovsepian, TEM-EELS study of low-friction superlatticeTiAlN/VN coating: The wear mechanisms, Tribology Letters, 24 (2006) 171-178.
  2. Q. Luo, Z. Zhou, W.M. Rainforth, P. Eh. Hovsepian, Analytical transmission electron microscopy to study the wear mechanisms of nano-structured multilayer coatings TiAlN/VN and TiAlCrYN.

[Invited oral presentation to 5th Asian-European Int. Conf. Plasma Surface Engineering, Qingdao, Chine, September 12-16 Sept. 2005.]

  1. P. Eh. Hovsepian, Q. Luo, G. Robinson, M. Pittman, M. Howarth, D. Doerwald, R. Tietema, W.M. Sim, M.R. Stalley, TiAlN/VN Superlattice Structured PVD Coatings: A New Alternative in Machining of Al Alloys for Aerospace and Automotive Components, Surface and Coatings Technology 201 (2006) 265-272.

[48th Annual SVC Technical Conference and Smart Materials Symposium April 23–28, 2005, Adam’s Mark Denver Hotel, Denver, Colorado.]

  1. Q. Luo, P. Eh. Hovsepian, Transmission electron microscopy and energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy on the worn surface of nano-structured TiAlN/VN multilayer coating, Thin Solid Films, 497 (2006) 203-209.
  2. I.A. Inman, P.K. Datta, H.L. Du, J.S. Burnell-Gray, S. Pierzgalski, Q. Luo, Studies of high temperature sliding wear of metallic dissimilar interfaces, Tribology International38 (2005) 812 - 823.
  3. P. Eh. Hovsepian, D. B. Lewis, Q. Luo*, W.-D. Münz, P. H. Mayrhofer, C. Mitterer, Z. Zhou, W. M. Rainforth, TiAlN based nanoscale multilayer PVD coatings designed to adapt their tribological properties at elevated temperatures, Thin Solid Films, 485 (2005) 160 -168.
  4. P. Eh. Hovsepian, D.B. Lewis, Q. Luo, A. Farinotti, Corrosion resistance of CrN/NbNsuperlattice coatings grown by various physical vapour deposition techniques, Thin Solid Films, 488 (2005) 1 - 8.
  5. Q. Luo, G. Robinson, M. Pittman, M. Howarth, W.-M. Sim, M. R. Stalley, H. Leitner, R. Ebner, D.Caliskanoglu, P.Eh. Hovsepian, Performance of nano-structured multilayer PVD coating TiAlN/VN in dry high speed milling of aerospace aluminium 7010-T7651, Surface and Coatings Technology 200 (2005) 123 - 127.

[Poster in 9th International Conference of Plasma Surface Engineering, Gamisch, Germany, Sept. 2004.]

  1. Y.N. Kok, P. Eh. Hovsepian, Q. Luo, D. B. Lewis, I. Petrov, Influence of the bias voltage on the structure and the tribological performance of nanoscale multilayer C/Cr coatings, Thin Solid Films 475 (2005) 219-226.
  2. Q. Luo, P.Eh. Hovsepian, D.B. Lewis, W.-D. Münz, Y.N. Kok, J. Cockrem, M. Bolton, A. Farinotti, Tribologicalperperties of unbalanced magnetron sputtered nanoscale multilayer coatings TiAlN/VN and TiAlCrYN deposited on plasma nitrided steels, Surface and Coatings Technology, 193 (2005) 39-45.

[Presented on the 4th Asian-European Int. Conf. Plasma Surface Engineering, JiJu, Korea, Oct. 2003.]

  1. D. Dave, T. Krug, R. Tietema, W. Sim, QS. Luo, P. Eh. Hovsepian, New Tool Coatings for Light Metal Cutting, CailiaoRechuliXuebao/Transactions of Materials and Heat Treatment, Volume 25, Issue 5, October 2004, Pages 832-836.

[International Conference of Heat Tretament and Surface Engineering, Shanghai, China, October, 2004.]

  1. D.B.Lewis, Q.Luo, Z. Zhou, P.Eh. Hovsepian, W.-D. Münz, Interrelationship between atomic species, bias voltage, texture and microstructure of nano-scale multilayers,Surface and Coatings Technology 184 (2004) 225-232.
  2. Q. Luo, D.B. Lewis, P.Eh. Hovsepian, W.–D. Münz, Transmission electron microscopy and X-ray diffraction investigation of the microstructure of nano-scale multilayers TiAlN/VN grown by unbalanced magnetron deposition, Journal of Materials Research, Vol. 19, No. 4 2004, 1093-1104.

[Oral presented in 8th International Conference of Plasma Surface Engineering, Gamisch, Germany, Sept. 2002.]

  1. D.B. Lewis, S. Creasey, Z. Zhou, J.J. Forsyth, A.P. Ehiasarian, P.Eh. Hovsepian, Q. Luo, W.M. Rainforth, W.-D. Münz, The effect of (Ti+Al):V ratio on the structure and oxidation behavior of TiAlN/VN nano-scale multilayer coatings, Surface and Coatings Technology 177-178 (2004) 252-259.
  2. I.A. Inman, S. Datta, H.L. Du, J.S. Burnell-Gray and Q. Luo, Microscopy of glazed layers formed during high temperature sliding wear, Wear 254 (2003) 461–467.
  3. P.Eh. Hovsepian, D.B. Lewis, C. Constable, Q. Luo, Y.N. Kok, W.-D. Münz, Combined steered cathodic arc/unbalanced magnetron grown C/Cr nanoscale multilayer coatings for tribological applications, Surface and Coatings Technology 174-175 (2003) 762-769.

[Poster presented in 8th International Conference of Plasma Surface Engineering, Gamisch, Germany, Sept. 2002.]

  1. C. Leyens, M. Peters, P.Eh. Hovsepian, D.B. Lewis, Q. Luo, W-D., Munz, Advanced nitride coatings for oxidation protection of titanium alloys, In: Materials for Advanced Power Engineering, J. Lecomte-Beckers, M. Carton, F. Schubert, P. J. Ennis (Eds.) Reihe Energietechnik, 21. Schriften des Forschungszentrum Julich, 2002, p465-474.
  2. E. Pflueger, J.D. Holbery, A. Savan, Y. Gerbig, Q. Luo, D. B. Lewis, W.-D. Münz, Alloying MoS2 with Al and Au: structure and tribological performance, Surface and Coatings Technology 169 –170 (2003) 716-720.
  3. C.P. Constable, J. Yarwood, G. Robinson, Q. Luo, D.B. Lewis, W.-D. Münz, Investigation of wear processes on worn tools using Ramam microscopy, Surface Engineering 18(2002)127-132.
  4. W.M. Rainforth, A.J. Leonard, C. Perrin, A. Bedolla-Jacuinde, Y. Wang, H. Jones, Q. Luo, High resolution observations of friction-induced oxide and its interaction with the worn surface,  Tribology International 35 (2002) 731-748.
  5. C. Leyens, M. Peters P. Eh. Hovsepian, D.B. Lewis, Q. Luo, W.-D. Münz, Novel Coating Systems Produced by the Combined Cathodic Arc/Unbalanced Magnetron Sputtering for Environmental Protection of Titanium Alloys and Titanium Aluminides, Surface and Coatings Technology 155 (2002) 103-111.
  6. C. Constable, Q. Luo, J. Yarwood, W.-D. Münz, C. Breen, Up close - a new tool for understanding wear processes, Materials World, 10 (2002) 10-12.
  7. Q. Luo, W.M. Rainforth, W.-D. Münz, TEM study of the wear of TiAlN/CrNsuperlattice coatings, ScriptaMaterialia, 45 (2001) 399-404.
  8. Q. Luo, W.M. Rainforth, W.-D. Münz, Wear mechanisms of monolithic and multicomponent nitride coatings grown by combined arc etching and unbalanced magnetron sputtering, Surface and Coatings Technology, 146 –147 (2001) 430 –435.
  9. Q. Luo, W.M.Rainforth, L.A.Donohue, I.Wadsworth, W.-D. Münz, Tribological investigation of TiAlCrN and TiAlN/CrN coatings grown by combined steered-arc/unbalanced magnetron deposition, Vacuum 53 (1999) 123-126.

[Oral presented in 14th International Vacuum Congress, Aug. 1998, Birminghan, UK.]

  1. Q. Luo, W.M.Rainforth, W.-D. Münz, TEM observation of wear mechanisms of TiAlCrN and TiAlN/CrN coatings grown by combined steered-arc/unbalanced magnetron deposition, Wear 225-229 (1999) 74-82.
  2. Z. Zhou, S. Mckay, Q. Luo, M. Rainforth, L Chen, P. Hovsepian, Investigating Worn Surface of NanoscaleTiAlN/VN Coating Using FIB and TEM, EMAG-Nano: Imaging, Analysis and Fabrication on the Nanoscale, Journal of Physics Series 26 (2006) 95-98, Institute of Physics Publishing doi: 10.1088/1742-6596/26/1/022.
  3. W.-D. Münz, Q. Luo, Adhesion of superlattice hard coatings on steel and cemented carbide substrates, in Condensed Matter Nuclear Science, Proceedings of the 9th International Conference of Cold Fusion, Beijing, China, May 19-24, 2002, Tsinghua University Press, 271-279.
  4. Q Luo, C Leyens, P Eh Hovsepian, D B Lewis, C P Constable and W-D Münz, Oxidation mechanism of PVD TiAlCrYN coating observed by analytical TEM, Electron Microscopy and Analysis 2001, Conference Series Number 168, edt. M. Aindow and C.J. Kiely, Institute of Physics, ISBN 0 7503 0812 5, 369-372.
  5. Q. Luo, P.Eh.Hovsepian, D.B.Lewis, W.-D. Münz, Transmission electron microscopy on microstructure and oxidation mechanisms of multilayer coating CrN/NbN, in Quantitative Microscopy of High Temperature Materials, Institute of Materials, 2001. Quantity Microscopy of High Temperature Materials, Microstructure of High Temperature Materials No.5, ISSN 1366-5510, edited A.Strang, J. Cawley, 241-256.
  6. W.-D. Münz, Q.Luo, G.Robinson, I.J.Smith, G.Veyssiere, Applications of Nanolayers in dry high speed milling of steels, presented in World Conference on High-Tech Surface Treatment and Coating, Saint-Etienne, Espace Fauriel, Feb.2001.
  7. W.D. Münz, Q.Luo, D.B.Lewis, M.Lembke, P.Eh. Hovsepian, G.Robinson, Wear of TiAlCrYN coated ball nosed solid carbide end mills during dry high speed milling, Proceedings 3rd International Conference on Metal Cutting and High Speed Machining ed. D. Dudzinski, A. Molinari and H. Schulz,  June 2001, Metz, France, 391.
  8. P.Eh.Hovsepian, D.B.Lewis, Q.Luo, W.-D. Münz, M.Meyer, High temperature performance of CrN/NbNsuperlattice coatings deposited on Ti alloy substrates, in Surface Engineering, EUROMAT 99 - Volume 11, ed. H. Dimigen, Wiley-VCH, ISBN 3-527-30196-8, 41-46.
  9. Q.Luo, JP.Xie, YP.Song, Effects of microstructure on the abrasive wear behaviour of spheroidal cast iron, Wear, 184 (1995) 1-10.
  10. Q. Luo, JP.Xie, W.Lu, Investigation of the wear failure mechanism of a flour milling roller, Wear, 161 (1993) 11-16.
  11. YP.Song, Q.Luo, Q.Chen, Y.Chen, Effects of Re-B modification on the strength and toughness of 30CrMn2Si cast steel, Journal of Materials Science, 29 (1994) 1492-1496.
  12. JP.Xie, Z.He., Q.Jiang, Q.Luo, Mechanism of work-hardening for austenite manganese steel under non-severe loading conditions, Chinese Journal of Materials Science and Technology, 8 (1992) 406-410.