This paper aims to provide a theoretical and experimental understanding of the importance
of novel 2D materials in solid-film lubrication, along with modulating strategies adopted so …

Diamond-like carbon (DLC) coatings have garnered considerable interest due to their
unique features, which include wear resistance with a low friction coefficient, high hardness …

Macroscale superlubricity breakdown of lubricating materials caused by substrate surface
roughening and mechanochemical modification poses great challenges for their practical …

To improve the thermal stability and mechanical performances of the DLC coating at high
temperature, thermodynamically stable Si-N and CN bonds were introduced into the DLC …

The origin of instability or even disappearance of the superlubricity state in hydrogenated
amorphous carbon (aC: H) film in the presence of oxygen or water molecules is still …

The origins of low friction of hydrogenated diamond-like carbon (H-DLC) films depending on
unidirectional and reciprocating motions were detected by the analyses of transmission …

When stainless steel components are subjected to sliding or rolling contacts in marine
environment, wear and corrosion efforts are simultaneously combined, resulting in …

Driven by the advent of fullerenes, carbon nanotubes and graphene, designing or tailoring
sp 2-rich carbon clusters in carbon based films attains very interesting properties which can …

Achieving macroscale superlubricity of van der Waals (vdW) nanopowders is particularly
challenging, due to the difficulty in forming ordered junctions before friction and the friction …

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 …