Friction 2023, 11(6): 1014-1026 https://doi.org/10.1007/s40544-022-0642-5

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Efficacy of hierarchical pore structure in enhancing the tribological and recyclable smart lubrication performance of porous polyimide

Show Author's Information Hide Author's Information Hongwei RUAN^{¹^,²}, Yaoming ZHANG^¹, Fuzhi SONG^¹, Qihua WANG^{¹^,²}, Chao WANG^¹(

), Tingmei WANG^{¹^,²}(

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1 Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Wear and Protection of Materials, Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China

2 Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

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recyclable smart lubrication, hierarchical pore structure, oil-content and oil-retention, friction and wear

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RUAN H, ZHANG Y, SONG F, et al. Efficacy of hierarchical pore structure in enhancing the tribological and recyclable smart lubrication performance of porous polyimide. Friction, 2023, 11(6): 1014-1026. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40544-022-0642-5

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Herein, a porous oil-containing material with hierarchical pore structure was successfully prepared through microtexturing large pores on the surface of porous polyimide (PPI) with single-level small pores. Compared to the conventional oil-containing material, the hierarchically porous oil-containing material exhibited high oil-content, and retained excellent mechanical properties and high oil-retention because of the synergistic effects of large pores and small pores. Furthermore, the lubricant stored in the hierarchically porous polyimide could release to the interface under thermal-and-mechano-stimuli, and the released lubricant could be reabsorbed into the hierarchically porous polyimide via the capillary-force offered by the porous channel. Based on the high oil-content and recyclable oil release/reabsorption, the hierarchically porous oil-containing polyimide exhibited excellent lubrication performance (coefficient of friction was 0.057). Furthermore, the composite could perform 1,069 cycles of smart lubrication (1 h per cycle), which significantly extended the service life of the hierarchically porous oil-containing smart lubrication material.

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Efficacy of hierarchical pore structure in enhancing the tribological and recyclable smart lubrication performance of porous polyimide

Show Author's information Hide Author's Information Hongwei RUAN^{¹^,²}, Yaoming ZHANG^¹, Fuzhi SONG^¹, Qihua WANG^{¹^,²}, Chao WANG^¹(

), Tingmei WANG^{¹^,²}(

)

1 Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Wear and Protection of Materials, Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China

2 Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

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Keywords: recyclable smart lubrication, hierarchical pore structure, oil-content and oil-retention, friction and wear

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Received: 10 November 2021

Revised: 26 January 2022

Accepted: 25 April 2022

Published: 30 July 2022

Issue date: June 2023

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This research was financially supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (2020YFB2006901), National Natural Science Foundation of China (51935006), CAS Project for Young Scientists in Basic Research (YSBR-023), Youth Innovation Promotion Association of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. 2020417), and Key Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (XDPB24).

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