固体润滑国家重点实验室（LSL）知识库

Prolonging wear life of amorphous carbon films under vacuum was an enormous challenge. In this work, we firstly reported that amorphous carbon film as a lubricant layer containing hydrogen, oxygen, fluorine and silicon (a-C:H:O:F:Si) exhibited low friction (~0.1), ultra-low wear rate (9.0 × 10^–13 mm³ N^–1 mm^–1) and ultra-long wear life (>2 × 10⁶ cycles) under high vacuum. We systematically examined microstructure and composition of transfer film for understanding of the underlying frictional mechanism, which suggested that the extraordinarily excellent tribological properties were attributed to the thermodynamically and structurally stable FeF₂ nanocrystallites corroborated using first-principles calculations, which were induced by the tribochemical reaction.