{"pk":65404,"title":"The Methods to Unlock Molybdenum Disulfide","subtitle":null,"abstract":"In today’s world, we’ve invented many new technologies that have allowed us to map out the earth’s surface but just as we can map out surfaces in a large scale, we can also map out surfaces in a very small scale such as in nanometers. Thus, giving us opportunities to study & discover various materials such as molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) crystalline flakes. MoS2 being a material that has a similar yet different structure to graphene, low friction when compared to SiO2 (a low friction material as is), and provides many potential applications that can be implemented into aerospace as a solid lubricant. But like any fellow researcher studying a material, each has their own methods/techniques that they use to obtain results. In our proposal, we will cover the research that has taken place to provide a consensus of MoS2’s potential application as a solid lubricant in aerospace to its low frictional properties in the nanometer scale. And the technologies we’ll be looking into to access for our methods/techniques for researching will be Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM), Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), X-Ray Photoelectric Spectroscopy (XPS), X-Ray Diffraction (XRD), and Tribometers at the University of California, Merced (UC Merced).","language":"en","license":null,"keywords":[{"word":"Molybdenum Disulfide"},{"word":"Friction"},{"word":"Aerospace"},{"word":"Solid Lubricant"},{"word":"Sample Preparation"},{"word":"Atomic Force Microscopy"},{"word":"AFM"},{"word":"Scanning Electron Microscopy"},{"word":"SEM"},{"word":"X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy"},{"word":"XPS"},{"word":"X-Ray Diffraction"},{"word":"XRD"},{"word":"Tribometer"}],"section":"Articles","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/33z9j308","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Anthony","middle_name":"","last_name":"Rodriguez","name_suffix":"","institution":"UC Merced","department":""}],"date_submitted":"2020-05-12T05:46:28Z","date_accepted":"2020-05-12T05:46:28Z","date_published":"2020-11-19T04:04:05Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/ucm_mwp_ucmurj/article/65404/galley/50098/download/"}]}