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Surface texturing for adaptive Ag/MoS2 solid lubricant plating

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The objective of this research is to prepare specially designed surface texture on hard steel surface by electrochemical micromachining (EM) and to incorporate electroless plated Ag/MoS2 solid lubricant coating into the dimples of EM textured steel surface to effectively reduce friction and wear of steel-steel contacts. The friction and wear behavior of the Ag/MoS2 solid lubricant coating on EM textured steel surface was evaluated in relation to the size and spacing of the dimples thereon. The microstructure of as-plated Ag/MoS2 solid lubricant coating and the morphology and elemental composition of the worn coating surface and counterface steel surface were analyzed by means of optical microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, and energy dispersive spectrometry. It is found that electroless plated Ag/MoS2 coating is able to greatly reduce the friction and wear of the EM textured steel disc coupled with GCr15 steel ring, mainly because of the formation of solid self-lubricating layer on the EM textured steel surface and of transferred lubricating film on counterface steel surface. The diameter and spacing of the dimples are suggested as 500 μm for acquiring the best wear resistance of the hard steel discs after electrochemical micromachining treatment and electroless plating of Ag/MoS2 solid lubricating coating.

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  1. Anhui Key Laboratory of High-Performance Non-Ferrous Metal Materials, Anhui Polytechnic University, Wuhu, 241000, China

    Zhongjia Huang & Minglang Liu

  2. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, 210094, China

    Dangsheng Xiong & Jianliang Li

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Huang, Z., Liu, M., Xiong, D. et al. Surface texturing for adaptive Ag/MoS2 solid lubricant plating. Rare Met. 31, 560–565 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12598-012-0558-8

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