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Mechanical and Tribological Properties of the Oxide Thin Films Obtained by Sol–gel Method

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This chapter will discuss the mechanical and tribological stability at the micro- and nanoscales of oxide films deposited by the sol–gel technique. The importance of tribological studies on sol–gel oxide films and of some works available in the literature will be shown. Particularly, films with applications in photovoltaic and photocatalyst devices compound of Cd2SnO4 and CdO+CdTiO3 films, respectively, and films obtained from their precursor solutions were evaluated by a quantitative novel method for simultaneous in situ measurement of the wear and friction evolution. The results obtained show the microtribological performance of the sol–gel oxides strongly depends on their crystalline phase, microstructure, and synthesis conditions.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACyT) under Project CeMIE-Sol PY207450/25. The authors would like to thank CONACyT and DGAPA-UNAM for the postdoctoral fellowship awarded to C. J. Diliegros-Godines and F. J. Flores-Ruiz, respectively. The authors also thank to F. A. Hernádez-García for giving some of the samples analyzed in this work. Esteban Broitman acknowledges financial support from the Swedish Government Strategic Research Area in Materials Science on Functional Materials at Linköping University (Faculty Grant SFO Mat LiU No 2009 00971).

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  1. CINVESTAV-Unidad Querétaro, Libramiento Norponiente #2000, Fracc. Real de Juriquilla, 76230, Querétaro, Qro, Mexico

    Carolina. J. Diliegros-Godines, Francisco Javier Flores-Ruiz, Rebeca Castanedo-Pérez & Gerardo Torres-Delgado

  2. CNyN-UNAM, Carretera Tijuana-Ensenada Km. 107, Pedregal Playitas, 22860, Ensenada, BC, Mexico

    Carolina. J. Diliegros-Godines & Francisco Javier Flores-Ruiz

  3. Thin Film Physics Division, Linköping University, SE-58183, Linköping, Sweden

    Esteban Broitman

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Diliegros-Godines, C.J., Flores-Ruiz, F.J., Castanedo-Pérez, R., Torres-Delgado, G., Broitman, E. (2016). Mechanical and Tribological Properties of the Oxide Thin Films Obtained by Sol–gel Method. In: Klein, L., Aparicio, M., Jitianu, A. (eds) Handbook of Sol-Gel Science and Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19454-7_115-1

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