The main obstacle for the application of high quality diamond-like carbon (DLC) coatings has been the lack of adhesion to the substrate as the coating thickness is increased. The aim of this study was to improve the filtered pulsed arc discharge (FPAD) method. With this method it is possible to achieve high DLC coating thicknesses necessary for practical applications. The energy of the carbon i...

Understanding friction and wear at the nanoscale is important for many applications that involve nanoscale components sliding on a surface, such as nanolithography, nanometrology and nanomanufacturing. Defects, cracks and other phenomena that influence material strength and wear at macroscopic scales are less important at the nanoscale, which is why nanowires can, for example, show higher stren...

We report a unique tribological system that produces superlubricity under boundary lubrication conditions with extremely little wear. This system is a thin coating of hydrogen-free amorphous Diamond-Like-Carbon (denoted as ta-C) at 353 K in a ta-C/ta-C friction pair lubricated with pure glycerol. To understand the mechanism of friction vanishing we performed ToF-SIMS experiments using deuterate...

Diamond coatings made by processes such as chemical vapor deposition (CVD) have been increasingly explored for cutting tools applications, in particular, for machining lightweight high-strength materials. However, most literature to date reported that the wear resistance of CVD diamond tools is still distant to the polycrystalline diamond (PCD) counterparts. Recently, a microwave plasma-assiste...

The electronic properties of disordered carbon based materials can be discussed in terms of the clustering of the sp 2 carbon phase and delocalization of the electron wavefunction. In smooth amorphous carbon thin films this results in a mixed phase material of conductive sp 2 clusters embedded in an electrically insulating sp 3 matrix. The delocalization of the electron wavefunction associated ...

The structure and properties of nano-carbon materials formed in explosives detonation are always a challenge, not only for the designing manufacturing these but also clearly understanding performance explosives. Herein, we study dynamic evolution process condensed-phase carbon involved 2,4,6-Triamino-1,3,5-trinitrobenzene (TATB) using quantum-based molecular dynamics method. Various structures ...

Earth’s climate has alternated between greenhouse (warm) and icehouse (cool) modes throughout the Phanerozoic (Figure 1A). At present, Earth is in the midst of an icehouse climate. Nevertheless, the rise of industrialization in the last two centuries has led to a dramatic increase in atmospheric CO 2 from the burning of fossil fuels, which, in turn, has led to signifi cant global warming (e.g.,...

In this study, we present a number of experiments on the transformation of graphite, diamond, and multiwalled carbon nanotubes under high pressure conditions. The analysis of our results testifies to the instability of diamond in the 55–115 GPa pressure range, at which onion-like structures are formed. The formation of interlayer sp3-bonds in carbon nanostructures with a decrease in their volum...