Achieving Ultralow Wear with Stable Nanocrystalline Metals

Curry, John F.; Babuska, Tomas F.; Furnish, Timothy A.; Lu, Ping; Adams, David P.; Kustas, Andrew B.; Nation, Brendan L.; Dugger, Michael T.; Chandross, Michael; Clark, Blythe G.; Boyce, Brad L.; Schuh, Christopher A.; Argibay, Nicolas

doi:10.1002/adma.201802026

Title: Achieving Ultralow Wear with Stable Nanocrystalline Metals

Journal Article · 24 June 2018 · Advanced Materials

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201802026 · OSTI ID:1457195

Curry, John F. ^[1]; Babuska, Tomas F. ^[1]; Furnish, Timothy A. ^[1]; Lu, Ping ^[1]; Adams, David P. ^[1]; Kustas, Andrew B. ^[1]; Nation, Brendan L. ^[1]; Dugger, Michael T. ^[1]; Chandross, Michael ^[1]; Clark, Blythe G. ^[1]; Boyce, Brad L. ^[1]; Schuh, Christopher A. ^[2]; Argibay, Nicolas ^[1]

Material, Physical, and Chemical Sciences Center Sandia National Laboratories Albuquerque NM 87185 USA
Department of Materials Science and Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge MA 02139 USA

Abstract Recent work suggests that thermally stable nanocrystallinity in metals is achievable in several binary alloys by modifying grain boundary energies via solute segregation. The remarkable thermal stability of these alloys has been demonstrated in recent reports, with many alloys exhibiting negligible grain growth during prolonged exposure to near‐melting temperatures. Pt–Au, a proposed stable alloy consisting of two noble metals, is shown to exhibit extraordinary resistance to wear. Ultralow wear rates, less than a monolayer of material removed per sliding pass, are measured for Pt–Au thin films at a maximum Hertz contact stress of up to 1.1 GPa. This is the first instance of an all‐metallic material exhibiting a specific wear rate on the order of 10 ⁻⁹ mm ³ N ⁻¹ m ⁻¹ , comparable to diamond‐like carbon (DLC) and sapphire. Remarkably, the wear rate of sapphire and silicon nitride probes used in wear experiments are either higher or comparable to that of the Pt–Au alloy, despite the substantially higher hardness of the ceramic probe materials. High‐resolution microscopy shows negligible surface microstructural evolution in the wear tracks after 100k sliding passes. Mitigation of fatigue‐driven delamination enables a transition to wear by atomic attrition, a regime previously limited to highly wear‐resistant materials such as DLC.

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Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

Grant/Contract Number:: NA0003525

OSTI ID:: 1457195

Journal Information:: Advanced Materials, Journal Name: Advanced Materials Journal Issue: 32 Vol. 30; ISSN 0935-9648

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Country of Publication:: Germany

Language:: English

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