• 文献标题:   In situ friction-induced amorphous carbon or graphene at sliding interfaces: Effect of loads
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   ZHANG RH, CHEN Q, HE ZY, XIONG LP
  • 作者关键词:   amorphous carbon, graphene, load, interface, friction
  • 出版物名称:   APPLIED SURFACE SCIENCE
  • ISSN:   0169-4332 EI 1873-5584
  • 通讯作者地址:   East China JiaoTong Univ
  • 被引频次:   0
  • DOI:   10.1016/j.apsusc.2020.146990
  • 出版年:   2020

▎ 摘  要

Loads were always treated as a key factor for alcohols lubrication, low loads such as 1 to 3 N made the tribosystems achieve the superlubricity assigning for tribochemical reactions. In this work, tribochemical reactions still exhibited the important role in alcohols lubrication. High loads such as 98 and 196 N could induce the formation of amorphous carbon and graphene respectively, which both made the tribosystems achieve the superior wear-resistance. Graphene could effectively keep the stable friction coefficient compared to amorphous carbon. First-principles calculations showed that ethylene glycol was easily dissociated to ethylene on WC surface. TEM analysis exhibited the chain-like amorphous carbon for sliding at 98 N, which indicated the polymerization products of ethylene. When increasing the load to 196 N, amorphous carbon was further transformed to graphene.