Carbon Nanomaterials as Promising Solid Lubricants to Tailor Friction and Wear
A special issue of Lubricants (ISSN 2075-4442).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2019) | Viewed by 22002
Special Issue Editors
Interests: advanced materials characterization; mechanical and tribological behavior of composite materials; electrical behavior of C-reinforced composites; nano C-based protective coatings
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Interests: MXenes; nanocomposites; tribology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The family of carbon nanomaterials (CNMs) is continuously growing, and has attracted significant attention in the scientific community, mainly due to the outstanding physical properties they offer. The combination of excellent mechanical, thermal, and electrical properties has made CNMs ideal candidates for purposes related to energy storage, supercapacitors, and batteries. Apart from that, CNMs have been used to tailor tribological properties by using them as an additive in lubricants or as a reinforcement phase in composite materials. Additionally, their application as a solid lubricant under dry sliding conditions has been foreseen as possible due to their combination of structural, chemical, and mechanical properties.
This Special Issue exclusively aims at the latest developments in the field of carbon nanomaterials used as solid lubricants under dry sliding conditions. In this context, the range of carbon nanomaterials includes carbon black, graphene and its derivatives, carbon nanotubes, carbon onions, nanodiamonds, and many others. Furthermore, advanced materials characterization enabling a more detailed understanding of the underlying mechanisms to reduce friction and wear are highly welcome in this Special Issue. Moreover, numerical work based upon different approaches and a cross-correlation to experimental findings also fall within the scope of this Special Issue.
It should be emphasized that amorphous carbon or diamond-like carbon and their respective tribological properties as well as any use of carbon nanomaterials as lubricant additives are not considered as the focus of this Special Issue.
Dr. Sebastian Suarez
Prof. Dr. Andreas Rosenkranz
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Carbon nanomaterials
- Solid lubricants
- Dry friction
- Friction and wear mechanisms
- Advanced materials characterization
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