A robust membrane with dual superlyophobicity for solving water-caused lubricant deterioration and water contamination

Siyang ZHAO; Chenggong XU; Jiaxu ZHANG; Yongmin LIANG; Weimin LIU; Jinxia HUANG; Zhiguang GUO

doi:10.1007/s40544-022-0677-7

Friction 2023, 11(8): 1442-1454 https://doi.org/10.1007/s40544-022-0677-7

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A robust membrane with dual superlyophobicity for solving water-caused lubricant deterioration and water contamination

Show Author's Information Hide Author's Information Siyang ZHAO^{¹^,²}, Chenggong XU^{¹^,²}, Jiaxu ZHANG^³, Yongmin LIANG^{¹^,⁴}, Weimin LIU^¹(

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), Zhiguang GUO^{¹^,⁵}(

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1 State Key Laboratory of Solid Lubrication, Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China

2 University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

3 School of Engineering and Technology, China University of Geosciences (Beijing), Beijing 100083, China

4 State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China

5 Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for the Green Preparation and Application of Functional Materials, Hubei University, Wuhan 430062, China

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lubricant, water, dual superlyophobicity, on-demand separation, tribology performance

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ZHAO S, XU C, ZHANG J, et al. A robust membrane with dual superlyophobicity for solving water-caused lubricant deterioration and water contamination. Friction, 2023, 11(8): 1442-1454. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40544-022-0677-7

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Lubricants are often contaminated by water in different ways. Water-polluted lubricants extremely accelerate wear corrosion, leading to the deterioration of lubricity performance. Recently, multiphase media superwettability has been developed to endow one surface with compatible functions, such as on-demand separation of oily wastewater. However, realizing the robustness of the dual superlyophobic surface to solve water-caused lubricant deterioration and water contamination as needed remains challenges. Herein, a robust dual superlyophobic membrane is presented to realize on-demand separation for various lubricant–water emulsions. Compared to pure lubricants, the purified lubricants have equivalent tribology performance, which are much better than that of water-polluted lubricants. The as-prepared membrane maintains dual superlyophobicity, high-efficient for water or lubricant purification, and excellent tribology performance of the purified lubricant, even after immersion in hot liquids for 24 h, multicycle separation, and sandpaper abrasion for 50 cycles. Water-polluted lubricant extremely accelerates wear corrosion to promote catalytic dehydrogenation of lubricants, generating too much harmful carbon-based debris. This work shows great guiding significance for recovering the tribology performance of water-polluted lubricants and purifying water by the dual superlyophobic membrane.

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A robust membrane with dual superlyophobicity for solving water-caused lubricant deterioration and water contamination

Show Author's information Hide Author's Information Siyang ZHAO^{¹^,²}, Chenggong XU^{¹^,²}, Jiaxu ZHANG^³, Yongmin LIANG^{¹^,⁴}, Weimin LIU^¹(

), Jinxia HUANG^¹(

), Zhiguang GUO^{¹^,⁵}(

)

1 State Key Laboratory of Solid Lubrication, Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China

2 University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

3 School of Engineering and Technology, China University of Geosciences (Beijing), Beijing 100083, China

4 State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China

5 Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for the Green Preparation and Application of Functional Materials, Hubei University, Wuhan 430062, China

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Keywords: lubricant, water, dual superlyophobicity, on-demand separation, tribology performance

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Received: 16 April 2022

Revised: 13 June 2022

Accepted: 19 July 2022

Published: 17 January 2023

Issue date: August 2023

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This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 51735013 and 51905520).

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