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Construction of ternary PEG200-based DESs lubrication systems via tailoring tribo-chemistry

Show Author's Information Yuting LI1,  Songyu LAN1,  Yazhou LIU1,  Cheng CAO1,  Zicheng TANG1,  Deyin DENG1,  Fuyuan LIU1,  Hao LI1( ),  Xiaoqiang FAN1,  Minhao ZHU1,2
Key Laboratory of Advanced Technologies of Materials (Ministry of Education), School of Materials Science and Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu 610031, China
Tribology Research Institute, School of Mechanical Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu 610031, China
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synergistic lubrication, deep eutectic solvents (DESs), PEG200/boric acid DES, PEG200/thiourea DES, ternary DESs, tribo-chemistry
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LI Y, LAN S, LIU Y, et al. Construction of ternary PEG200-based DESs lubrication systems via tailoring tribo-chemistry. Friction, 2024, 12(4): 655-669. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40544-023-0778-y
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Designing novel lubricants with easily customized structures, devisable compositions, and simple and economic synthesis over traditional lubricants is critical to fulfilling complex applications, prolonging machine lifetime, and saving energy. Deep eutectic solvents (DESs), which show tunable composition, adjustable structure, easy fabrication, and environmental friendliness, are promising candidates for variable and complicated lubricants applications. To promote the use of DESs as lubricants, a series of PEG200-based DESs with active heteroatoms were fabricated to tailor the tribological performance via tribo-chemistry. Thereinto, PEG200/boric acid (BA) DES shows optimal lubrication performance by forming tribo-chemical reaction film composited of B2O3, iron oxides, and FeOOH, and PEG200/thiourea (TU) DES displays abrasive wear-reducing property by producing FeS tribo-chemical film. Given the excellent abrasive wear-resistance of PEG200/TU DES and friction reduction of PEG200/BA DES, ternary PEG200/BA/TU DESs, composited of PEG200/TU DES and PEG200/BA DES, are first exploited. The ternary DESs possess superior wettability and thermal stability, which render them potential lubricants. Tribological tests of the ternary DESs demonstrate that synergistic lubrication is achieved by forming a transfer film consisting of FexBy, BN, B2O3, and FeS. Wherein FexBy, BN, and B2O3 increase load bearing of the film, and FeS mitigates severe abrasive wear. The proposed design philosophy of novel DESs as lubricants opens up a unique realm that is unattainable by traditional DESs lubrication mechanisms and provides a platform to design next-generation DESs lubrication systems.


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Construction of ternary PEG200-based DESs lubrication systems via tailoring tribo-chemistry

Show Author's information Yuting LI1, Songyu LAN1, Yazhou LIU1, Cheng CAO1, Zicheng TANG1, Deyin DENG1, Fuyuan LIU1, Hao LI1( ), Xiaoqiang FAN1, Minhao ZHU1,2
Key Laboratory of Advanced Technologies of Materials (Ministry of Education), School of Materials Science and Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu 610031, China
Tribology Research Institute, School of Mechanical Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu 610031, China

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Designing novel lubricants with easily customized structures, devisable compositions, and simple and economic synthesis over traditional lubricants is critical to fulfilling complex applications, prolonging machine lifetime, and saving energy. Deep eutectic solvents (DESs), which show tunable composition, adjustable structure, easy fabrication, and environmental friendliness, are promising candidates for variable and complicated lubricants applications. To promote the use of DESs as lubricants, a series of PEG200-based DESs with active heteroatoms were fabricated to tailor the tribological performance via tribo-chemistry. Thereinto, PEG200/boric acid (BA) DES shows optimal lubrication performance by forming tribo-chemical reaction film composited of B2O3, iron oxides, and FeOOH, and PEG200/thiourea (TU) DES displays abrasive wear-reducing property by producing FeS tribo-chemical film. Given the excellent abrasive wear-resistance of PEG200/TU DES and friction reduction of PEG200/BA DES, ternary PEG200/BA/TU DESs, composited of PEG200/TU DES and PEG200/BA DES, are first exploited. The ternary DESs possess superior wettability and thermal stability, which render them potential lubricants. Tribological tests of the ternary DESs demonstrate that synergistic lubrication is achieved by forming a transfer film consisting of FexBy, BN, B2O3, and FeS. Wherein FexBy, BN, and B2O3 increase load bearing of the film, and FeS mitigates severe abrasive wear. The proposed design philosophy of novel DESs as lubricants opens up a unique realm that is unattainable by traditional DESs lubrication mechanisms and provides a platform to design next-generation DESs lubrication systems.

Keywords: synergistic lubrication, deep eutectic solvents (DESs), PEG200/boric acid DES, PEG200/thiourea DES, ternary DESs, tribo-chemistry

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Received: 09 December 2022
Revised: 20 March 2023
Accepted: 09 May 2023
Published: 06 September 2023
Issue date: April 2024

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The authors acknowledge support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 52175190 and 51805455), and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. 2682021CX117). We thank the technical support from "Ceshigo Research Service Agency for DSC analysis, www.ceshigo.com" and the Analytical and Testing Center of Southwest Jiaotong University for supporting the SEM measurements.

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