Possibility of organic monolayer films as lubricants for disk drives: Comparative study of PFPE and organosilane

Journal of Tribology

Volumn 125, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 850-853

  Choi, Junho ^a   Kawaguchi, Masahiro ^b   Kato, Takahisa ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b NAGAOKA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRICTION; HARD DISK STORAGE; LUBRICATION; SILANES; TRIBOLOGY;

TRIBOTESTERS;

MONOLAYERS;

DISK DRIVE; FILM; LUBRICANT; ORGANIC COMPOUND; SOLID LUBRICANT;

EID: 0142088693     PISSN: 07424787     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.1573230     Document Type: Article

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