Issue 29, 2015
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Transforming organic molecular films into carbon films as solid lubricants†

Hongyu Liang,ab   Yongfeng Bu,c   Yan Zhou,a   Yongfu Wanga  and  Junyan Zhang*a  

* Corresponding authors

a State Key Laboratory of Solid Lubrication, Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China
E-mail: zhangjunyan@licp.cas.cn
Fax: +86 9314968295
Tel: +86 9314968295

b University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

c Key Laboratory of Mesoscopic Chemistry of MOE and Jiangsu Provincial Lab for Nanotechnology, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China

Abstract

To meet the lubrication demands of future MEMS/NEMS, thickness-controllable carbon films have been successfully prepared directly on silicon substrates by carbonizing electrophoresis-deposited trichloroacetic acid (TCA) molecular films. Compared with easily worn-out TCA molecular films, the transformed carbon films exhibit ultra-low friction coefficients and wear rates, along with strong adhesion to silicon substrates. These results prove that the idea of transforming organic molecular films into carbon thin films is a unique and promising approach to fabricate thickness-controllable and wear-resistant carbon-based solid lubricants for MEMS/NEMS.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C5RA01400J
Article type
Paper
Submitted
23 Jan 2015
Accepted
18 Feb 2015
First published
19 Feb 2015

RSC Adv., 2015,5, 22305-22309

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Transforming organic molecular films into carbon films as solid lubricants

H. Liang, Y. Bu, Y. Zhou, Y. Wang and J. Zhang, RSC Adv., 2015, 5, 22305 DOI: 10.1039/C5RA01400J

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