Multiscale Tribology of Solid Lubricants
A special issue of Lubricants (ISSN 2075-4442).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2023) | Viewed by 24448
Special Issue Editors
Interests: polymer tribology; solid lubricants; nanotribology; atomic force microscopy
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Solid lubricants have long played a pivotal role in ensuring efficient and reliable operation of systems where the use of conventional, liquid lubricants is otherwise precluded. Often, these systems are designed for operation under extreme conditions—variable temperatures, harsh environments, and unpredictable loads and stress—or where lubricant materials must perform multifunctional roles. The diversity of applications that solid lubricants cater to is enabled, in part, by an equally diverse spectrum of available solid lubricant material chemistries, form factors and methods of application. Solid lubricant chemistries ranging from amorphous polymers, polycrystalline metals or lamellar solids, and single-atomic sheets may be used as bulk solid materials, dispersed solid lubricant additives, as well as “thin” surface coatings (down to a single atomic layer). Across the spectrum, regardless of material chemistry or end-application, solid lubricant function at the component length-scale is invariably derived from their structure at the atomic or microstructural length-scales.
This Special Issue will highlight recent advances in the development of novel solid lubricant materials, as well as advances in our understanding of mechanisms by which solid lubricant materials operate. We invite high-quality, scientific research manuscripts with either an applied focus, or manuscripts that advance basic scientific understanding of solid lubrication and solid lubricant materials, across mechanochemical length scales. We anticipate such research to highlight experimental, theoretical and/or computational studies that advance the science of solid lubrication, and enable development of next-generation solid lubricant materials for future technologies.
Dr. Harman Khare
Dr. Zhijiang (Justin) Ye
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- polymer tribology
- thin films
- lamellar solids
- mechanochemistry
- nanotribology
- superlubricity
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