TY - JOUR
T1 - Tribochemistry of Diamond-like Carbon
T2 - Interplay between Hydrogen Content in the Film and Oxidative Gas in the Environment
AU - Jang, Seokhoon
AU - Rabbani, Muztoba
AU - Ogrinc, Andrew L.
AU - Wetherington, Maxwell T.
AU - Martini, Ashlie
AU - Kim, Seong H.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 American Chemical Society.
PY - 2023/8/9
Y1 - 2023/8/9
N2 - The lubricity of hydrogenated diamond-like carbon (HDLC) films is highly sensitive to the hydrogen (H) content in the film and the oxidizing gas in the environment. The tribochemical knowledge of HDLC films with two different H-contents (mildly hydrogenated vs highly hydrogenated) was deduced from the analysis of the transfer layers formed on the counter-surface during friction tests in O2 and H2O using Raman spectroscopic imaging and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). The results showed that, regardless of H-content in the film, shear-induced graphitization and oxidation take place readily. By analyzing the O2 and H2O partial pressure dependence of friction of HDLC with a Langmuir-type reaction kinetics model, the oxidation probability of the HDLC surface exposed by friction as well as the removal probability of the oxidized species by friction were determined. The HDLC film with more H-content exhibited a lower oxidation probability than the film with less H-content. The atomistic origin of this H-content dependence was investigated using reactive molecular dynamics simulations, which showed that the fraction of undercoordinated carbon species decreased as the H-content in the film increased, corroborating the lower oxidation probability of the highly-hydrogenated film. The H-content in the HDLC film influenced the probabilities of oxidation and material removal, both of which vary with the environmental condition.
AB - The lubricity of hydrogenated diamond-like carbon (HDLC) films is highly sensitive to the hydrogen (H) content in the film and the oxidizing gas in the environment. The tribochemical knowledge of HDLC films with two different H-contents (mildly hydrogenated vs highly hydrogenated) was deduced from the analysis of the transfer layers formed on the counter-surface during friction tests in O2 and H2O using Raman spectroscopic imaging and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). The results showed that, regardless of H-content in the film, shear-induced graphitization and oxidation take place readily. By analyzing the O2 and H2O partial pressure dependence of friction of HDLC with a Langmuir-type reaction kinetics model, the oxidation probability of the HDLC surface exposed by friction as well as the removal probability of the oxidized species by friction were determined. The HDLC film with more H-content exhibited a lower oxidation probability than the film with less H-content. The atomistic origin of this H-content dependence was investigated using reactive molecular dynamics simulations, which showed that the fraction of undercoordinated carbon species decreased as the H-content in the film increased, corroborating the lower oxidation probability of the highly-hydrogenated film. The H-content in the HDLC film influenced the probabilities of oxidation and material removal, both of which vary with the environmental condition.
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U2 - 10.1021/acsami.3c05316
DO - 10.1021/acsami.3c05316
M3 - Article
C2 - 37306622
AN - SCOPUS:85163472698
SN - 1944-8244
VL - 15
SP - 37997
EP - 38007
JO - ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces
JF - ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces
IS - 31
ER -