scholarly journals Tribological properties of black phosphorus nanosheets as oil-based lubricant additives for titanium alloy-steel contacts

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (9) ◽  
pp. 200530
Author(s):  
Qingjuan Wang ◽  
Tingli Hou ◽  
Wei Wang ◽  
Guoliang Zhang ◽  
Yuan Gao ◽  
...  

The black phosphorus (BP) powders were prepared by high-energy ball milling with red phosphorus as the raw material, and then the BP nanosheets were obtained by liquid-phase exfoliation. The tribological properties of the BP nanosheets as oil-based lubricant additives were investigated by the ball-on-disc tribometer. Results show that compared with the base oil of liquid paraffin (LP), the coefficient of friction and wear rate of the BP nanosheets as the additives in liquid paraffin (BP-LP) are lower for the same loads. BP-LP lubricants could significantly improve the load-bearing capacity of the base oil for titanium alloy-steel contacts and show excellent friction-reducing and anti-wear properties. The surface morphologies and elemental compositions of the friction pairs were further analysed using an optional microscope, scanning electron microscope and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. The lubrication mechanism of BP-LP can be attributed to the synergistic effects between lamellar adsorption and interlayer shear of BP nanosheets.

RSC Advances ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (8) ◽  
pp. 4312-4319 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maoquan Xue ◽  
Zhiping Wang ◽  
Feng Yuan ◽  
Xianghua Zhang ◽  
Wei Wei ◽  
...  

TiO2/Ti3C2Tx hybrid nanocomposites were successfully prepared by a liquid phase synthesis technology. The hybrid nanocomposites improve the tribological properties of base oil by mending the surface and formation a uniform tribofilm on the surface.


2021 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Yufu Xu ◽  
Kequn Sun ◽  
Jingyuan Yu ◽  
Yichen Bao ◽  
Yinghui Dong ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Lifeng Hao ◽  
Feng Cao ◽  
Zewen Jiang ◽  
Jiusheng Li ◽  
Tianhui Ren

Oil-soluble compounds containing boron as lubricating additives were restricted by the hydrolysis of borate ester. In order to overcome this problem, cerium borate nanoparticles modified with oleic acid (O-CeB) as a potential substitute for conventional lubricant additive were studied in detail. The microstructures of the prepared nanoparticles were characterized. Tribological properties of cerium borate nanoparticles used as additive in base oil were evaluated, and the worn surface of the steel ball was investigated. The results show that O-CeB possesses better anti-wear ability at relatively higher concentration; in particular, it shows better friction-reducing ability under all these studied concentrations. Under higher load, its anti-wear property and friction-reducing property are better than that of Vanlube 289 in the base oil. Based on these results of interferometric surface profilometer and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, it can be deduced that a continuous resistance film containing depositions and the tribochemical reaction products was formed during the sliding process.


Friction ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 332-343 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kunpeng Wang ◽  
Huaichao Wu ◽  
Hongdong Wang ◽  
Yuhong Liu ◽  
Lv Yang ◽  
...  

AbstractLayered palygorskite (PAL), commonly called attapulgite, is a natural inorganic clay mineral composed of magnesium silicate. In this study, an aqueous miscible organic solvent treatment method is adopted to prepare molybdenum-dotted palygorskite (Amo-PMo) nanoplatelets, which greatly improved the specific surface area of PAL and the dispersion effect in an oil-based lubricant system. Their layered structure and size were confirmed using transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and atomic force microscopy. Following a tribological test lubricated with three additives (PAL, organic molybdenum (SN-Mo), and Amo-PMo), it was found that the sample of 0.5 wt% Amo-PMo exhibited the best tribological properties with a coefficient of friction of 0.09. Moreover, the resulting wear scar diameter and wear volume of the sliding ball surface were 63% and 49.6% of those lubricated with base oil, respectively. Its excellent lubricating performance and self-repairing ability were mainly attributed to the generated MoS2 adsorbed on the contact surfaces during the tribochemical reaction, thereby effectively preventing the direct collision between asperities on sliding solid surfaces. Thus, as-prepared Amo-PMo nanoplatelets show great potential as oil-based lubricant additives, and this study enriches the existing application of PAL in industry.


2017 ◽  
Vol 29 (6) ◽  
pp. 395-409 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mengnan Qu ◽  
Yali Yao ◽  
Jinmei He ◽  
Xuerui Ma ◽  
Shanshan Liu ◽  
...  

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 1476-1483 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shende Rashmi Chandrabhan ◽  
Velayudhanpillai Jayan ◽  
Somendra Singh Parihar ◽  
Sundara Ramaprabhu

The present paper describes a facile synthesis method for nitrogen-doped reduced graphene oxide (N-rGO) and the application of N-rGO as an effective additive for improving the tribological properties of base oil. N-rGO has been characterized by different characterization techniques such as X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and Raman spectroscopy. N-rGO-based nanolubricants are prepared and their tribological properties are studied using a four-ball tester. The nanolubricants show excellent stability over a period of six months and a significant decrease in coefficient of friction (25%) for small amounts of N-rGO (3 mg/L). The improvement in tribological properties can be attributed to the sliding mechanism of N-rGO accompanied by the high mechanical strength of graphene. Further, the nanolubricant is prepared at large scale (700 liter) and field trials are carried out at one NTPC thermal plant in India. The implementation of the nanolubricant in an induced draft (ID) fan results in the remarkable decrease in the power consumption.


2011 ◽  
Vol 230-232 ◽  
pp. 774-778 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guo Xian Yu ◽  
Mei Jin ◽  
Kun Wan ◽  
Ping Lu

Surface modifiers with different lipophilic chain lengths, such as, lauric acid diethanolamine, myristic acid diethanolamine, palmitic acid diethanolamine and stearic acid diethanolamine, were used to prepare four kinds of LaF3nanoparticles in the mixture solvent of water-ethanol. Morphology and surface modification of LaF3nanoparticles were investigated by TEM, FTIR and TG. Effect of length of surface modifier lipophilic chain on tribological properties of LaF3nanoparticles and their susceptibility to base oils were investigated by a four-ball machine. Results show that the tribological properties of LaF3nanoparticles in the base oil in build up as lipophilic chain length of surface modifiers increases; the longer the lipophilic chain is, the better the susceptibility of the nanoparticles to liquid paraffin wax is. This is mainly because that the lipophilic chain length influences the interface activity of the nanoparticles, moreover, for homologous organic acid soaps, the longer the lipophilic chain is, the better its friction reducing performance is; the properties of base oils also influence the interface activity of the nanoparticles.


2012 ◽  
Vol 1452 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Ivanov ◽  
D. Ivanov ◽  
S.V. Pavlyshko ◽  
A. Koscheev ◽  
Olga A. Shenderova

ABSTRACTIn the current work tribological properties of different compositions of lubricant additives based on detonation nanodiamond (DND) particles are reported. As compared to the previous findings using polyalphaolefin oil as a base oil for the additives, it is demonstrated that polymer esters are also a valuable base oil for the additive preparation. It is also demonstrated that synergistic compositions of DND with organic molybdenum provide significant improvement of the polyalphaolephin and mineral oils lubricating properties. Treatment of of DND with fluorine containing gases is an additional possibility toward reduced friction and wear of the DND-based nanolubricants.


Author(s):  
L. Joly-Pottuz ◽  
J. M. Martin ◽  
F. Dassenoy ◽  
B. Vacher ◽  
T. Mieno ◽  
...  

Most of lubricant additives used as friction modifier and anti-wear agents are mainly organic compounds containing sulphur and phosphorous. Their lubrication mechanism is based on a tribochemical reaction leading to tribofilm formation but also the formation of some harmful by-products. Inorganic nanoparticles (nanotubes, fullerenes, onions...), because of their unique morphology and very small size, could be envisaged for the replacement of such organic additives. The purpose of this work is to study and compare the tribological properties of different kinds of nanoparticles added and dispersed as additives to a lubricating base oil. Here, we are particularly interested in carbon nanotubes and graphite onions which were then tested and compared. Added to a poly-alpha-olefin (PAO) base oil, all nanoparticles tested show a reduction of both friction and wear of steel counterfaces. The detailed study of the concentration effect in PAO shows that 1wt% of nanotubes is sufficient to obtain good tribological properties. A structural modification of nanoparticles during friction was clearly evidenced by analytical TEM. In the case of nanotubes, flake-like wear debris made of amorphous carbon have been observed [1].


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaoliang Ma ◽  
Chaoliang Gan ◽  
Xiaopeng Li ◽  
Yuting Li ◽  
Peng Feng ◽  
...  

Abstract Herein, core-shell structural SiO2@Cu and SiO2@MoS2 microspheres were prepared using SiO2 as hard core, Cu and MoS2 as shell. As lubricant additives were introduced into base oil (PAO 40), their friction-reduction and wear-resistance were investigated in detail. Comparing with onefold additive (SiO2, Cu and MoS2), such core-shell structure additives can improve the tribological behaviors at the Hertz contact stress range of 1.26 ~ 2.72 GPa (SiO2@Cu reduces the friction and wear up to 32.47% and 67.86% at 2.72 GPa, respectively). Besides, the tribological properties of SiO2@Cu microspheres are superior to that of SiO2@MoS2 (the wear volume was reduced by 48.45% at 2.72 GPa). The excellent tribological behaviors of SiO2@Cu microspheres can be ascribed to its structural advantage, the synergistic effect of hard SiO2 core and Cu shell. The rolling effect of SiO2, easy-shearing and self-repairing of Cu shell offer a synergistic lubrication function and form a dense protection film, thereby contributing to the optimal lubrication performance.


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