2008
DOI: 10.1063/1.2990757
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Carbon-hydrogen bonding in near-frictionless carbon

Abstract: The uniquely low friction behavior of near-frictionless carbon (NFC) as compared to conventional diamondlike carbon (DLC) is determined by the bonding within the film. Inelastic neutron scattering (INS) and Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy were used to probe the bonding environment of carbon and hydrogen; both INS and FTIR can probe the whole sample. Previous work has focused on surface studies; the present results show that in the film as a whole the majority of the hydrogen is adjacent to sp3-b… Show more

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“…The presence of a flat mode at 360 meV in Fig. 5c confirms that the scattering at 170 meV arises from the C-H bending mode 44,45 . Figure 5d shows the scattering from liquid CYTOP-M at room temperature, where the 170 meV C-H bending mode in solidified CYTOP-M moves to 150 meV.…”
Section: Resultssupporting
confidence: 60%
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“…The presence of a flat mode at 360 meV in Fig. 5c confirms that the scattering at 170 meV arises from the C-H bending mode 44,45 . Figure 5d shows the scattering from liquid CYTOP-M at room temperature, where the 170 meV C-H bending mode in solidified CYTOP-M moves to 150 meV.…”
Section: Resultssupporting
confidence: 60%
“…4a), suggesting that the modes in both compounds do not have a magnetic origin. Since our FeSn and CoSn samples are glued on the aluminum plates by CYTOP-M which is an amorphous fluoropolymer but contains one hydrogen to facilitate bonding to metal surface 36,43 , the hydrogenated amorphous carbon films formed between sample and aluminum plates should have C-H bending and stretching vibrational modes occurring around 150-180 meV and 350-380 meV, respectively 44,45 . Indeed, a scan with incident neutron beam energy of 500 mV reveals the presence of a flat mode around 350-380 meV (Fig.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…[Molecular hydrogen termination was a long-held hypothesis. However, recent studies suggest that only atomic hydrogen coverage of NFC surfaces is present (83).] Erdemir et al (82) believe that the hydrogen atoms lose their electron to the outer shell of the carbon atoms, leaving the positively charged hydrogen nucleus exposed.…”
Section: Extrinsic Solid Lubricantsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Diamond-like carbon (DLC) containing a large proportion of combined sp 3 /sp 2 -hybrid bonds has extreme properties similar to diamonds [1][2][3][4][5]. It is possible to prepare DLC films for several important applications in the fields of mechanical manufacturing, solar energy devices, electricity devices, and so forth, owing to their excellent properties, including high hardness, high thermal conductivity, high electrical resistivity, low infrared (IR) absorption, transparency to visible light, hydrophobic behavior, and chemical inertness [6][7][8][9][10][11].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%