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Natural materials tend to exhibit excellent performance in the engineering field because of their structure and special functions. A natural red willow, called natural porous wood material (NPWM), was found, and wear tests were conducted to determine its potential as an oil-impregnated material by utilizing its special porous structure. Fluorination treatment was adopted to improve the NPWM properties for absorbing and storing lubricating oil. The different contributions of soaking and fluorination-soaking treatments on the tribological properties of NPWMs and their respective mechanism of effect were revealed. The results showed that the fluorination-soaking treatment helped absorb and store sufficient lubricating oil in the NPWM porous structure; therefore, more lubricating oil would be squeezed out and function as a tribol-film between contacting surfaces during the friction process, thus ultimately contributing to stable and smooth wear responses even under prolong friction. However, the formation of an oil-in-water emulsion, caused by the buoyancy effect, destroyed the oil films on the worn NPWM surface in a water environment, resulting in higher coefficients of friction (COFs) under water conditions than under dry friction, even after the fluorination-soaking treatment. The knowledge gained herein could not only verify the potential of NPWM as an excellent oil-impregnated material in the engineering field but also provide a new methodology for the design of artificial porous materials with stable and smooth friction processes.
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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 52075399), High-Tech Ship Research Project of Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (No. MIIT [2019]358), and the financial support from the program of China Scholarships Council (CSC. No. 202006950002).
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Shutian LIU. He received his M.S. degree in transportation engineering at Wuhan University of Technology in 2020. Now he is a Ph.D. candidate in Polymer Technology Group, Department of Mechanical Engineering at Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands. His research interest focuses on the contact mechanics of polymers.
Conglin DONG. He received his M.S. degree in marine engineering in 2010 at Wuhan University of Technology and Ph.D. degree in vehicle operating engineering in 2015 at the same university. After two years postdoctoral experience in State Key Laboratory of Tribology at Tsinghua University, he joined to the School of Energy and Power Engineering at Wuhan University of Technology in 2017. Now, he is an associate professor in School of Transportation and Logistics Engineering at Wuhan University of Technology. His research focuses on reliability of marine power system & technologies to green ship, wear mechanisms and wear control in marine power system, and frictional vibration noise behaviors and control.
Chengqing YUAN. He received his M.S. degree in mechanical design and theory at Wuhan Research Institute of Materials Protection, China Academy of Machinery Science and Technology in 2001 and Ph.D. degree in vehicle operating engineering at Wuhan University of Technology in 2005. He joined the School of Energy and Power Engineering at Wuhan University of Technology in 2005. His current position is a professor and the vice dean of the School of Transportation and Logistics Engineering at Wuhan University of Technology. His research areas cover marine tribology, new energy aided ship power system, and ship energy efficiency improvement.
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Liu, S., Dong, C., Yuan, C. et al. Friction reduction behavior of oil-infused natural wood. Friction 10, 1824–1837 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40544-021-0558-5
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