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Polyimide composites have been extensively used as motion components under extreme conditions for their thermal stability and special self-lubricating performance. In the present study, Ag-Mo hybrids as lubricant fillers were incorporated into thermosetting polyimide to prepare a new type of tribo-materials (TPI-1) at high temperature. Comprehensive investigations at different temperatures reveal that the newly developed TPI-1 exhibits a better reduction in friction and wear rate below 100 °C, but all of them increase significantly when the bulk temperature exceeds 250 °C. The wear mechanisms demonstrated that sandwich-like tribofilms with different layers were established at different temperatures, which was further verified by characterization of scanning electron microscope (SEM), Raman spectroscopy, and transmission electron microscope (TEM). Considering the high-performance TPI coupled with Ag-Mo hybrids, we anticipate that further exploration would provide guidance for designing TPI tribo-materials that would be used at high temperatures.


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Exploring the friction and wear behaviors of Ag-Mo hybrid modified thermosetting polyimide composites at high temperature

Show Author's information Chunjian DUAN1,2Ren HE3Song LI1,2Mingchao SHAO1,2Rui YANG1,2Liming TAO1Chao WANG1Ping YUAN3Tingmei WANG1( )Qihua WANG1( )
State Key Laboratory of Solid Lubrication, Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
Institute of System Engineering, China Academy of Engineering Physics, Mianyang 621900, China

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Polyimide composites have been extensively used as motion components under extreme conditions for their thermal stability and special self-lubricating performance. In the present study, Ag-Mo hybrids as lubricant fillers were incorporated into thermosetting polyimide to prepare a new type of tribo-materials (TPI-1) at high temperature. Comprehensive investigations at different temperatures reveal that the newly developed TPI-1 exhibits a better reduction in friction and wear rate below 100 °C, but all of them increase significantly when the bulk temperature exceeds 250 °C. The wear mechanisms demonstrated that sandwich-like tribofilms with different layers were established at different temperatures, which was further verified by characterization of scanning electron microscope (SEM), Raman spectroscopy, and transmission electron microscope (TEM). Considering the high-performance TPI coupled with Ag-Mo hybrids, we anticipate that further exploration would provide guidance for designing TPI tribo-materials that would be used at high temperatures.

Keywords: high temperature tribology, polyimide, Ag-Mo hybrids, self-lubricating composites

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Received: 10 January 2019
Revised: 15 April 2019
Accepted: 30 May 2019
Published: 04 December 2019
Issue date: October 2020

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We thank to financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China-Academy of Engineering Physics Joint Fund (NSAF) (U1630128), the National Natural Science Foundation of China-Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation of China Aerospace Advanced Manufacturing Technology Research Joint Fund (U1637205), and the National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program, 2015CB057502). This work was also partially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (51673205, 51565025) and the Key Research Program of Frontier Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant QYZDJ-SSW-SLH056).

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