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Two-dimensional molybdenum carbide (MXene) as an efficient nanoadditive for achieving superlubricity under ultrahigh pressure

Show Author's Information Shuang YI1,2,  Yitong GUO3,  Jinjin LI1( ),  Yuxin ZHANG2,  Aiguo ZHOU3,  Jianbin LUO1
State Key Laboratory of Tribology, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
College of Materials Science and Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, China
Henan Key Laboratory of Materials on Deep-Earth Engineering, Henan Polytechnic University, Jiaozuo 454003, China
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wear resistance, superlubricity, additives, molybdenum carbide (Mo2CTx) MXene, ultrahigh pressure
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In this study, a robust macroscale liquid superlubricity with a coefficient of friction of 0.004 was achieved by introducing molybdenum carbide (Mo2CTx) MXene nanoparticles as lubricating additives in a lithium hexafluorophosphate-based ionic liquid at Si3N4–sapphire interfaces. The maximal contact pressure in the superlubricity state could reach 1.42 GPa, which far exceeds the limit of the superlubricity regime in previous studies. The results indicate that a composite tribofilm (mainly containing molybdenum oxide and phosphorus oxide) that formed at the interface by a tribochemical reaction contributed to the excellent antiwear performance. Furthermore, the extremely low shear strength of the tribofilm and the interlayers of Mo2CTx MXene contributed to the superlubricity. This work demonstrates the promising potential of Mo2CTx MXene in improving superlubricity properties, which could accelerate the application of superlubricity in mechanical systems.


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Two-dimensional molybdenum carbide (MXene) as an efficient nanoadditive for achieving superlubricity under ultrahigh pressure

Show Author's information Shuang YI1,2, Yitong GUO3, Jinjin LI1( ), Yuxin ZHANG2, Aiguo ZHOU3, Jianbin LUO1
State Key Laboratory of Tribology, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
College of Materials Science and Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, China
Henan Key Laboratory of Materials on Deep-Earth Engineering, Henan Polytechnic University, Jiaozuo 454003, China

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In this study, a robust macroscale liquid superlubricity with a coefficient of friction of 0.004 was achieved by introducing molybdenum carbide (Mo2CTx) MXene nanoparticles as lubricating additives in a lithium hexafluorophosphate-based ionic liquid at Si3N4–sapphire interfaces. The maximal contact pressure in the superlubricity state could reach 1.42 GPa, which far exceeds the limit of the superlubricity regime in previous studies. The results indicate that a composite tribofilm (mainly containing molybdenum oxide and phosphorus oxide) that formed at the interface by a tribochemical reaction contributed to the excellent antiwear performance. Furthermore, the extremely low shear strength of the tribofilm and the interlayers of Mo2CTx MXene contributed to the superlubricity. This work demonstrates the promising potential of Mo2CTx MXene in improving superlubricity properties, which could accelerate the application of superlubricity in mechanical systems.

Keywords: wear resistance, superlubricity, additives, molybdenum carbide (Mo2CTx) MXene, ultrahigh pressure

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Received: 29 October 2021
Revised: 26 November 2021
Accepted: 08 January 2022
Published: 12 April 2022
Issue date: March 2023

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This work was financially supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (No. 2020YFA0711003), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 52005290, 51775295, and 52175174), and the Open Research Fund of Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Design and Manufacture of Micro-Nano Biomedical Instruments (No. KF202004).

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