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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(a) Snapshots of PFPE Z at step 0; (b) snapshots of PFPE Z at step 300,000; (b) snapshots of PFPE Zdol at step 0; (d) snapshots of PFPE Zdol on a DLC substrate at step 300,000 when the DLC film is compressed into half of its original configuration at temperature = 7 (896 K = 623°C) with bond/break.
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