Research Article

Study of the Thermal Decomposition of PFPEs Lubricants on a Thin DLC Film Using Finitely Extensible Nonlinear Elastic Potential Based Molecular Dynamics Simulation

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Snapshots of PFPE Ztetraol on a DLC substrate at different time steps: (a) at step = 0; (b) at step = 3000; (c) at step = 245000; (d) at step = 300,000 at temperature = 3 (501 K = 228°C) with bond/break.
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