Beilstein J. Nanotechnol.2022,13, 54–62, doi:10.3762/bjnano.13.3
and wear. However, on the microscopic scale, it is not clear to what extent lubricants are beneficial. Therefore, in this study, we consider two diamond solid-stategears at the nanoscale immersed in different lubricant molecules and perform classical MD simulations to investigate the rotational
formation process between gears.
Keywords: lubricants; MD simulation; rotational transmission; solid-stategears; Introduction
In mechanical systems, lubrication is the most common way to reduce friction and wear [1][2][3][4]. The idea of lubricants is preventing direct contact between surfaces to avoid
either solid-stategears or molecular gears, which are created by top-down approaches (e.g., using focused ion beams [23] or electron beams [24][25] to etch the substrate) or bottom-up approaches such as chemical synthesis [26][27]. The ultimate goal for those miniaturized gears is to implement nanoscale
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Figure 1:
A schematic illustration of two interlocked diamond involute solid-state gears (red and yellow) wit...