“…The results suggest that the oxidative severity of 850-TiN coating gradually deepened with the oxidation temperature increasing. Moreover, the average grain diameters of formed rutileTiO 2 can be calculated using the Scherrer equation [25,26], and they are 216 nm, 237 nm, 288 nm and 373 nm for the (110) planes (the reflections at 2θ angles of 27.61) of rutile-TiO 2 from 600 1C to 750 1C, respectively. This result fits well with the growth rate as the oxidation temperature increasing.…”