Study on Anti-Friction Mechanism of Canna-Leaf Biomimetic Micro-Textured Fruit Tree

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

I am not an expert on this matter, so cannot detect plagiarism and/or place it within a related research. Nevertheless, ideas are interesting. From the point of view of tribology measurements, errors should be estimated. Also, the Authors should rephrase the main message: what did we learn? Wear is expected to increase with loads. Can this knowledge be transferred to some practical recommendations? What is oxidative wear?

Author Response

Thank you for your affirmation and questions, my reply below.

Question 1: what did we learn? Wear is expected to increase with loads.

Under the same substance contact, wear will increase with the increase of load, and the friction coefficient will relatively decrease.

Question 2: Can this knowledge be transferred to some practical recommendations?

The results of the article can be applied to modern agriculture, industrial knives or other continuous working contact metal tools to increase the useful life of practical tools and reduce the wear of tool contact surfaces.

Question 3：What is oxidative wear?

Oxidative wear is a kind of chemical wear. In the process of relative friction pair wear, due to environmental factors, the temperature of the wear surface increases, and the material surface chemically reacts with oxygen in the air to form oxide film and other materials with different hardness. On the surface of the grinding material, causing material failure.

Reviewer 2 Report

The artilce is well written and interesting.

Reviewer opinion is that to increase significantly the quality of article please provide SEM of the surface of the blades of pruners after the pruning tests w/wo texture and discuss them

Othewise see comments in pdf

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Author Response

Thank you for your affirmation and question, the attachment below is my reply.

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