Nanocomposite microstructure and environment self-adapted tribological properties of highly hard graphite-like film

Tribology Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 301-310

  Wang, Yongxin ^a,c   Wang, Liping ^a   Wang, S C ^b   Zhang, Guangan ^a   Wood, Robert J K ^b   Xue, Qunji ^a  

^a LANZHOU INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Environment self adapted tribological properties; Graphite like carbon; Hardness; Nanocomposite microstructure

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT AIR; AMBIENT TEMPERATURES; AMORPHOUS CARBON MATRIX; AMORPHOUS MATRICES; DC MAGNETRON SPUTTERING; DISTILLED WATER; FRICTION COEFFICIENTS; FRICTION REGIME; GLC FILM; GRAIN SIZE; GRAPHITE TARGET; HIGH CONCENTRATION; HIGH HARDNESS; HIGH POTENTIAL; NANOCOMPOSITE FILM; NANOCOMPOSITE MICROSTRUCTURE; NANOCRYSTALLINE GRAPHITE; RELATIVE HUMIDITIES; SELECTED AREA DIFFRACTION PATTERNS; STRENGTHENING EFFECT; TRIBOLOGICAL PROPERTIES; WATER ENVIRONMENTS; WEAR RATES;

AMORPHOUS CARBON; AMORPHOUS FILMS; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; CARBON FILMS; DC POWER TRANSMISSION; DIFFRACTION; FRICTION; GRAPHITE; HARDNESS; MICROSTRUCTURE; NANOCOMPOSITES; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; TRIBOLOGY; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 78649635030     PISSN: 10238883     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11249-010-9663-8     Document Type: Article

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