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Thermally grown surface oxide layers dominate the single-asperity tribological behavior of a Zr60Cu30Al10 glass. Increase in oxidation time leads to an increased contribution of shearing and a corresponding decreased contribution of ploughing to friction. This change in the dominating friction and wear mechanism results in an overall minor decrease of the friction coefficient of oxidized surfaces compared to the metallic glass sample with native surface oxide. Our results demonstrate the importance of creating a stable oxide layer for practical applications of metallic glasses in micro-devices involving sliding contact.
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S. J. K., A. C. and, R. B. are grateful to Prof. E. Arzt for his continuous interest and support of this work. A. C. and S. J. K. were supported by the German Science Foundation (DFG). The authors thank Dr. M. Koch (INM) for his support by providing high-resolution TEM results.
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S. J. KANG. He received his bachelor degree in material science and engineering from Koreatech (Korea University of Technology and Education), Cheonan, Korea. During his bachelor program, he has done an internship program as an assistant researcher in Nano-tribology group at INM-Leibniz Institute for New Materials, Saarbrücken, Germany. He is studying for his master degree in material science and engineering at Zhejiang University. His research interests include new-structured materials, nano-tribology and mechanical properties of metallic glasses.
A. CARON. He is a materials scientist with expertise in the multi-scale mechanical behavior of materials, surfaces and microcomponents. Since 2015 Arnaud Caron is assistant professor in the School of Energy, Materials and Chemical Engineering at KoreaTech–Korea University of Technology and Education, Republic of Korea. Arnaud Caron obtained his engineering degree in materials science in 2004 from the University of Saarland, Germany and was awarded with the Schiebold Medal. In 2009 he earned his doctoral degree in materials science from the University of Saarland, Germany. From 2007 to 2015 Arnaud Caron worked as a research associate at the Institute of micro- and nanomaterials of the University of Ulm, Germany, the WPI-Advanced Institute of Materials Research, Japan and the Leibniz–Institute for New Materials, Germany.
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Kang, S.J., Rittgen, K.T., Kwan, S.G. et al. Importance of surface oxide for the tribology of a Zr-based metallic glass. Friction 5, 115–122 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40544-017-0149-7
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