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Tribologically induced nanostructural evolution of carbon materials: A new perspective

Show Author's Information Guilherme Oliveira NEVES1,2,  Nicolás ARAYA3,  Diego Berti SALVARO1,  Thiago de Souza LAMIM1,  Renan Oss GIACOMELLI4,  Cristiano BINDER1,  Aloisio Nelmo KLEIN1,  José Daniel Biasoli de MELLO1,5( )
Laboratório de Materiais, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Santa Catarina 88040-900, Brazil
Departamento de Ingeniería Mecánica, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad del Bío-Bío, Concepcion 4070-386, Chile
Universidad de Concepción, Concepcion 4070-386, Chile
SENAI Innovation Institute for Laser Processing, Santa Catarina 89218-153, Brazil
Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, Minas Gerais 38408-100, Brazil
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tribolayer, tribology, solid lubrication, Raman spectroscopy, carbon nanostructures, defects quantification
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Carbon-based solid lubricants are excellent options to reduce friction and wear, especially with the carbon capability to adopt different allotropes forms. On the macroscale, these materials are sheared on the contact along with debris and contaminants to form tribolayers that govern the tribosystem performance. Using a recently developed advanced Raman analysis on the tribolayers, it was possible to quantify the contact-induced defects in the crystalline structure of a wide range of allotropes of carbon-based solid lubricants, from graphite and carbide-derived carbon particles to multi-layer graphene and carbon nanotubes. In addition, these materials were tested under various dry sliding conditions, with different geometries, topographies, and solid-lubricant application strategies. Regardless of the initial tribosystem conditions and allotrope level of atomic ordering, there is a remarkable trend of increasing the point and line defects density until a specific saturation limit in the same order of magnitude for all the materials tested.


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Tribologically induced nanostructural evolution of carbon materials: A new perspective

Show Author's information Guilherme Oliveira NEVES1,2, Nicolás ARAYA3, Diego Berti SALVARO1, Thiago de Souza LAMIM1, Renan Oss GIACOMELLI4, Cristiano BINDER1, Aloisio Nelmo KLEIN1, José Daniel Biasoli de MELLO1,5( )
Laboratório de Materiais, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Santa Catarina 88040-900, Brazil
Departamento de Ingeniería Mecánica, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad del Bío-Bío, Concepcion 4070-386, Chile
Universidad de Concepción, Concepcion 4070-386, Chile
SENAI Innovation Institute for Laser Processing, Santa Catarina 89218-153, Brazil
Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, Minas Gerais 38408-100, Brazil

Abstract

Carbon-based solid lubricants are excellent options to reduce friction and wear, especially with the carbon capability to adopt different allotropes forms. On the macroscale, these materials are sheared on the contact along with debris and contaminants to form tribolayers that govern the tribosystem performance. Using a recently developed advanced Raman analysis on the tribolayers, it was possible to quantify the contact-induced defects in the crystalline structure of a wide range of allotropes of carbon-based solid lubricants, from graphite and carbide-derived carbon particles to multi-layer graphene and carbon nanotubes. In addition, these materials were tested under various dry sliding conditions, with different geometries, topographies, and solid-lubricant application strategies. Regardless of the initial tribosystem conditions and allotrope level of atomic ordering, there is a remarkable trend of increasing the point and line defects density until a specific saturation limit in the same order of magnitude for all the materials tested.

Keywords: tribolayer, tribology, solid lubrication, Raman spectroscopy, carbon nanostructures, defects quantification

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Received: 18 August 2022
Revised: 19 October 2022
Accepted: 08 March 2023
Published: 27 September 2023
Issue date: January 2024

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The authors acknowledge the following Brazilian agencies for funding this research: CNPq, CAPES, BNDES and the Chilean agency ANID Vinculación Internacional FOVI220096 (No. 72190023) as well as Nidec Global Appliance/ Embraco.

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