Course Outline:
- Composition and structure of surfaces
- natural condition: oxide and hydrocarbon films
- surface segregation and reaction with environments, thermodynamics
- structure of surfaces, atomistic simulations
- methods to study composition and structure of surfaces
- composition - Auger electron spectroscopy, X-ray photoelectron
spectroscopy
- structure - LEED, STM/AFM, XRD, HREM
- Chemical interactions on surfaces
- adsorption and deposition on surfaces (physisorption and
chemisorption)
- Langmuir adsorption isotherm
- desorption from surfaces
- electronic properties and surface reactions relevant to
tribology, density functional studies analysis
- structure sensitivity
- lubricant degradation
- Nanomechanical properties
- determination of surface mechanical properties (AFM/nanoindentation)
- simple friction theories - effects of surface composition
and structure on friction
- environmental and temperature effects, relationship with
surface chemistry
- mixed and boundary lubrication, failure mechanisms
- Project presentation
Textbook:
Lecture notes and selected papers
Contact:
Instructors: Yip-Wah
Chung, Donald
Ellis and Peter Stair
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