Credit: Badri Narayanan and Subramanian Sankaranarayanan, Argonne National Laboratory
Atomistic simulations of the chemical mechanism leading to reduced friction. a–d: Atomic snapshots from simulations at selected times during the sulfur- (S-) induced amorphization of diamond nanoparticles. e–h: Atomic snapshots from simulations at selected times during the formation of onion-like carbon structures.