Review of force fields and intermolecular potentials used in atomistic computational materials research

JA Harrison, JD Schall, S Maskey, PT Mikulski… - Applied Physics …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
Molecular simulation is a powerful computational tool for a broad range of applications
including the examination of materials properties and accelerating drug discovery. At the …

In-situ transmission electron microscopy for probing the dynamic processes in materials

Y Zhu, H Zhao, Y He, R Wang - Journal of Physics D: Applied …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Physic-based materials design often relies on a fundamental understanding on the structure
and property relations of materials. By introducing various stimuli into the transmission …

Durable superlubricity of hydrogenated diamond-like carbon film against different friction pairs depending on their interfacial interaction

Y Liu, Y Jiang, J Sun, L Wang, Y Liu, L Chen… - Applied Surface …, 2021 - Elsevier
Superlubricity of hydrogenated diamond-like carbon (H-DLC) film in vacuum was achieved
against four different friction pairs (ZrO 2, Al 2 O 3, Si 3 N 4 and SiC) due to the formation of …

Comprehensive topography characterization of polycrystalline diamond coatings

A Gujrati, A Sanner, SR Khanal… - Surface Topography …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The surface topography of diamond coatings strongly affects surface properties such as
adhesion, friction, wear, and biocompatibility. However, the understanding of multi-scale …

Impacts of environments on nanoscale wear behavior of graphene: Edge passivation vs. substrate pinning

Y Qi, J Liu, Y Dong, XQ Feng, Q Li - Carbon, 2018 - Elsevier
Being a typical layer structured two-dimensional material, graphene has a high potential as
an efficient and atomically-thin solid lubricant. However, the outstanding lubricating property …

Corrosion resistance of amorphous carbon film in 3.5 wt% NaCl solution for marine application

J Wei, P Guo, L Liu, H Li, H Li, S Wang, P Ke, H Saito… - Electrochimica …, 2020 - Elsevier
In this work, we fabricated the tetrahedral amorphous carbon (ta-C) films with thicknesses of
20 nm, 40 nm and hydrogenated diamond-like carbon (DLC: H) film with thickness of 1.1 μm …

Stress-dependent adhesion and sliding-induced nanoscale wear of diamond-like carbon studied using in situ TEM nanoindentation

JH Liang, Z Milne, M Rouhani, YP Lin, RA Bernal… - Carbon, 2022 - Elsevier
We present the first in situ transmission electron microscope (TEM) study of extended sliding
of diamond-like carbon (DLC) on diamond. We show how the tribological properties of …

Tribological behavior of single crystal diamond based on UV photocatalytic reaction

W Liu, Q **ong, J Lu, X Wang, Q Yan - Tribology International, 2022 - Elsevier
The tribological behaviors of single crystal diamond (SCD) under different UV photocatalytic
conditions (UV intensity, H 2 O 2 content, pH) were investigated by ball-on-disk rotating …

Insights into tribology from in situ nanoscale experiments

TDB Jacobs, C Greiner, KJ Wahl, RW Carpick - Mrs Bulletin, 2019 - cambridge.org
Tribology—the study of contacting, sliding surfaces—seeks to explain the fundamental
mechanisms underlying friction, adhesion, lubrication, and wear, and to apply this …

Effect of surface termination on the balance between friction and failure of Ti3C2Tx MXenes

Q Yang, SJ Eder, A Martini… - npj Materials …, 2023 - nature.com
Reactive molecular dynamics simulations of Ti3C2T x with three different surface
terminations were used to understand friction and failure of MXenes during sliding at normal …