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Improved Tribological Behavior of DLC Films Under Water Lubrication by Surface Texturing

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Textured diamond-like carbon (DLC) films with the pattern of parallel grooves were developed by depositing DLC on textured stainless substrates in a PVD system. The texturing effects on tribological performance of DLC in water-lubricated condition were investigated. Results show that introducing specific patterns into DLC film not only retains the low friction coefficients, but also dramatically extends coating lifetime through affecting the coating delamination behavior and graphitization process during friction. Besides the adherence difference induced by surface texturing which could influence the delamination, another possible mechanism, “buffer stripes”, which is characteristic of the lateral soft/hard periodical structure, was proposed by us based on the Micro-Raman spectroscopy and nanoindentation analysis. Additionally, a much lower graphitization for textured DLC during friction may also be responsible for the improved wear resistance.

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This study was supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program) (NO. 2011CB706603), and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NO. 50905178). The authors gratefully acknowledge Mr. Yaonan Zhang and Guohui Zhao for supporting the numerical simulation at Lanzhou branch of supercomputing CAS.

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Solid Lubrication, Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, 730000, People’s Republic of China

    Qi Ding, Liping Wang, Yongxin Wang, Litian Hu & Qunji Xue

  2. Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100039, People’s Republic of China

    Qi Ding & Yongxin Wang

  3. National Centre for Advanced Tribology at Southampton (nCATS), School of Engineering Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK

    S. C. Wang

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Ding, Q., Wang, L., Wang, Y. et al. Improved Tribological Behavior of DLC Films Under Water Lubrication by Surface Texturing. Tribol Lett 41, 439–449 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11249-010-9730-1

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