Our work of reducing chemomechanical effects by ion beam treatments has bow been published:

Investigation of Chemomechanical Effects on Sapphire Surfaces Modified by Ion- implantation-induced Carbon Impurities, A. Yadav, N. Moharrami and S.J. Bull, J. Bio- Tribo-corrosion., (2021) 7:52.

https://doi.org/10.1007/s40735-021-00490-y.