HybriMet Net Shape Nanocomposite cermets offers the following advantages for a variety of applications:

• Hardness of ceramics with toughness of steel
  – Allows large parts to be fabricated – not flaw sensitive as monolithic ceramics
  – No expensive or critical heat treatments required
• Near-nano WC, hierarchically structured
  – >1400VHN (2200-2400VHN)
  – >20Mpa/m toughness (greater than tool steel)
• No measurable wear, loads up to 480KSI
• Machinable
• Low friction in low viscosity lubricant
  – e.g., Salt water, diesel fuel
• Does not tear up mating surfaces – self lapping
  – Targeted Use in highly loaded hybrid bearings
• Fabricated using spark plasma sintering of n-WC and n-TiN cermet engineered starting powders