Adhesion properties of nanometer-thick perfluoropolyether films confined between solid surfaces: A coarse-grained molecular dynamics study

Tribology Letters

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 479-487

  Fukuda, Motoo ^a   Zhang, Hedong ^a   Ishiguro, Takahiro ^a   Fukuzawa, Kenji ^a   Itoh, Shintaro ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adhesion; Coarse graining; Hard disk drives; Molecular dynamics simulation; Nanometer thick lubricant films

Indexed keywords

COARSE GRAINING; COARSE-GRAINED MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; COARSE-GRAINED MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; HARD DISK DRIVE; LIQUID-LIQUID INTERACTIONS; LUBRICANT FILMS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; SOLID-LIQUID INTERACTION;

FILM THICKNESS; HARD DISK STORAGE; LIQUID FILMS; LUBRICANTS; MEMS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PLASTIC FILMS; THICK FILMS; THIN FILMS;

ADHESION;

EID: 84882258186     PISSN: 10238883     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11249-013-0183-1     Document Type: Article

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