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Nanoscale Run-In of Silicon Oxide-Doped Hydrogenated Amorphous Carbon: Dependence of Interfacial Shear Strength on Sliding Length and Humidity

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We conducted atomic force microscopy (AFM) experiments by sliding hard tetrahedral amorphous carbon (ta-C)-coated and diamond AFM probes against silicon oxide-doped hydrogenated amorphous carbon (a-C:H:Si:O) films. We reproducibly observe a substantial reduction in friction with repeated sliding. This behavior qualitatively resembles the run-in effects generally seen in macroscale frictional sliding on diamond-like carbons (DLCs), including this a-C:H:Si:O film in particular. As the applied normal load is increased with repetitive sliding, the friction reduces in tandem. The lateral stiffness of the nanoscale contact is measured as a function of applied normal load, thus the real contact area and the interfacial shear strength are inferred throughout the sliding experiments. These measurements show that the friction reduction is caused by a reduction in the interfacial shear strength of the contact. We propose that this arises from sliding-induced structural modification of the a-C:H:Si:O film. The calculated shear strengths are more than an order of magnitude higher than estimates from macroscale friction experiments. Additionally, humidity-controlled experiments show no significant humidity dependence of the friction despite a very strong dependence at macroscale. Reasons for these contradictions with macroscale experiments are discussed.

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This material is based upon work supported by the Advanced Storage Technology Consortium ASTC (Grant 2011-012), the National Science Foundation under Grant No. DMR-1107642, the National Science Foundation through the University of Pennsylvania Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) (DMR-1720530), and by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche under Grant No. ANR-11- NS09-01 through the Materials World Network program. NSF Major Research Instrumentation Grant DMR-0923245 and use of the Scanning and Local Probe Facility of the Singh Center for Nanotechnology, which is supported by the NSF National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure Program under grant NNCI-1542153, are acknowledged. J.B.M. acknowledges support of a Graduate Research Supplement for Veterans from the Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences at the National Science Foundation.

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McClimon, J.B., Hilbert, J., Lukes, J.R. et al. Nanoscale Run-In of Silicon Oxide-Doped Hydrogenated Amorphous Carbon: Dependence of Interfacial Shear Strength on Sliding Length and Humidity. Tribol Lett 68, 80 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11249-020-01319-4

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