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This work is concerned with the study of the tribologic properties of room temperature fluorinated graphite heat-treated under fluorine atmosphere. The fluorinated compounds all present good intrinsic friction properties (friction coefficient in the range 0.05–0.09). The tribologic performances are optimized if the materials present remaining graphitic domains (influenced by the presence of intercalated fluorinated species) whereas the perfluorinated compounds, where the fluorocarbon layers are corrugated (armchair configuration of the saturated carbon rings) present higher friction coefficients. Raman analyses reveal that the friction process induces severe changes in the materials structure especially the partial re-building of graphitic domains in the case of perfluorinated compounds which explains the improvement of μ during the friction tests for these last materials.
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Delbé, K., Thomas, P., Himmel, D. et al. Tribological Properties of Room Temperature Fluorinated Graphite Heat-Treated Under Fluorine Atmosphere. Tribol Lett 37, 31–41 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11249-009-9487-6
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