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Superlubricity has drawn substantial attention worldwide while the energy crisis is challenging human beings. Hence, numerous endeavors are bestowed to design materials for superlubricity achievement at multiple scales. Developments in graphene-family materials, such as graphene, graphene oxide, and graphene quantum dots, initiated an epoch for atomically thin solid lubricants. Nevertheless, superlubricity achieved with graphene-family materials still needs fundamental understanding for being applied in engineering in the future. In this review, the fundamental mechanisms for superlubricity that are achieved with graphene-family materials are outlined in detail, and the problems concerning graphene superlubricity and future progress in superlubricity are proposed. This review concludes the fundamental mechanisms for graphene superlubricity and offers guidance for utilizing graphene-family materials in superlubricity systems.
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This work was financially supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (No. 2020YFB2007300), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 52005287), the Foundation from State Key Laboratory of Tribology (Nos. SKLTKF20B01 and SKLTKF21B14), and Beijing Institute of Technology Research Fund Program for Young Scholars.
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Xiangyu GE. He received his Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from North China Electric Power University, Beijing, China, in 2016. He worked as a postdoc at George Washington University, Washington, USA, and Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, from 2016 to 2019. He is currently an assistant professor in the School of Mechanical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China. His major research areas include 2D material lubrication, liquid superlubricity, and rolling bearing lubrication.
Zhiyuan CHAI. He received his B.S. degree in industrial and systems engineering from Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China, in 2020, and is currently a graduate student at Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China. His research interests include the liquid superlubricity and rolling bearing lubrication.
Yanfei LIU. He received his Ph.D. degree in mechanics from Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, China, in 2018. Afterwards, he conducted post-doctoral research at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, from 2018 to 2020. He is currently an assistant professor at the School of Mechanical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China. His major research areas include nanocomposites, solid lubrication, solid—liquid superlubricity, and tribology theory.
Wenzhong WANG. He received his Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2003. He joined School of Mechanical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China, in 2006. His current position is a professor and director of the Department of Machine Design. His research areas cover modeling of lubricated contact problems, contact model for inhomogeneous and function gradient materials, dynamics of rolling bearing, and thermal analysis.
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Ge, X., Chai, Z., Shi, Q. et al. Graphene superlubricity: A review. Friction 11, 1953–1973 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40544-022-0681-y
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