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CHINESE SCIENCE BULLETIN
Volume 57, Issue 15, Pages 1879-1885Publisher
SCIENCE PRESS
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-012-5106-2
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water-based lubrication; wettability; self-assmebled molecular films
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In this paper, we report the tribological properties of self-assembled molecular (SAM) films of fluoroalkylsilanes and non-fluoroalkylsilanes, with different chain-lengths, adsorbed on Si substrate surfaces by covalent bonds. The SAM films were characterized using a universal ball-disk experimental tester in aqueous solutions. The substrate surface was examined by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), and the SAM films adsorbed on the Si surfaces were inspected by contact angle measurements and XPS. Lubrication studies revealed that several kinds of fluoroalkylsilanes had similar friction coefficients; the small differences were attributed to the chain flexibility. In contrast, differences in the aqueous lubrication properties of SAM films of non-fluoroalkylsilanes were clearly identified. It is suggested that substitution with fluorine atoms and the surface affinities of fluoroalkylsilanes contributed to redistribution of surface changes, causing variations in lubrication behaviors.
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