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APPLIED SURFACE SCIENCE
Volume 255, Issue 13-14, Pages 6565-6570Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.apsusc.2009.02.041
Keywords
Nanocrystalline; Diamond film; Contact angle measurements; X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS); Atomic force microscopy (AFM); Raman scattering spectroscopy
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- CNPq [305009/2006-0, 471356/2006-9]
- Fapesp [05/513876, 07/00013-4, 03/13454-8]
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The wettability of nanocrystalline diamond was systematically studied using water by sessile-drop method for films grown with different concentrations of methane addition in the Ar/CH4/H-2 mixtures. These films showed diamond grains agglomerate, also called ballas diamond, which presented a decrease on film roughness from 230 to 12 nm associated to a contact angle decrease from 978 to 738, as the methane concentration increased from 0.5 to 2.0 vol.%. Considering the wettability evolution is only due to a chemical surface modi. cation, it could be reasonably proposed that the progressive loss of the hydrophobic character is linked to the progressive increase of surface terminations with oxygen (carbonyl or carboxyl). This result is coherent with the observed from the deconvolution of XPS spectra, where the total oxygen amount increased from 5 to 14% and the sp(3)/sp(2) carbon ratio decreased from 7.6 to 6.9 as the methane concentration increased. Moreover, the stress behaviour, analyzed by Raman spectroscopy, was explained pointed out the nanodiamond/nanographite transition process due to the methane increase in the gas phase. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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