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Tribological performance under different environments of Ti—C—N composite films for marine wear-resistant parts

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The need for reducing the wear in mechanical parts used in the industry makes self-lubricant films one of the sustainable solutions to achieve long-term protection under different environmental conditions. The purpose of this work is to study the influence of C additions on the tribological behavior of a magnetron-sputtered TiN film in air, water, and seawater. The results show that the addition of C into the TiN binary film induced a new amorphous phase, and the films exhibited a dual phase of fcc (face-centered cubic)-TiN and amorphous carbon. The antifriction and wear-resistance properties were enhanced in air and water by adding 19.1at% C. However, a further increase in the C concentration improved anti-frictional properties but also led to higher wear rates. Although the amorphous phase induced microbatteries and accelerated the corrosion of TiN phases in seawater, the negative abrasion state was detected for all Ti—C—N films due to the adhesion of the tribocorrosion debris on the wear track.

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This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 52171071, 52172090, 52071159, and 51801081), Portugal National Funds through FCT project (No. 2021.04115), FEDER National funds FCT under the project CEMMPRE-UIDB/00285/2020, Outstanding University Young Teachers of “Qing Lan Project” of Jiangsu Province, Excellent Talents of “Shenlan Project” of Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, and China Merchants Marine Scientific Research and Innovation Fund. Filipe Fernandes acknowledges the funding received in the aim of the projects: MCTool21—ref. “POCI-01-0247-FEDER-045940”, CEMMPRE—ref. “UIDB/00285/2020”, and SMARTLUB—ref. “POCI-01-0145-FEDER-031807”.

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    Hongbo Ju, Rui Zhou, Jing Luan, Lihua Yu & Junhua Xu

  2. CEMMPRE-Centre for Mechanical Engineering Materials and Processes, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, 3030-788, Portugal

    Hongbo Ju & Filipe Fernandes

  3. CFAA, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Bilbao, 48170, Spain

    Ch Sateesh Kumar

  4. ISEP-School of Engineering, Polytechnic of Porto, Porto, 4200-072, Portugal

    Filipe Fernandes

  5. Key Laboratory of Materials Physic, Institute of Solid State Physics, Hefei Institute of Physical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, 230031, China

    Junfeng Yang

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    Bowei Zhang

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Ju, H., Zhou, R., Luan, J. et al. Tribological performance under different environments of Ti—C—N composite films for marine wear-resistant parts. Int J Miner Metall Mater 30, 144–155 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12613-022-2551-z

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