Elastic Lubricious Effect of Solidlike Boundary Films in Oil-Starvation Lubrication

• Published in: Journal of physical chemistry. C Vol. 123; no. 3; pp. 1677 - 1691
• Main Authors: Xu, Jiao, Nian, Jingyan, Wang, Peng, Guo, Zhiguang, Liu, Weimin
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: American Chemical Society 24.01.2019

Herein, a boundary lubrication (BL) mechanism based on the carbon-based tribofilms formed via Ni­(Cu)-catalytic dehydrogenation of hydrocarbon oils was queried by performing standard ball-on-disk tribotests on magnetron-sputtered WN, Ni, and W–N–Ni coatings in the oil-starvation condition. The exper...