Improved Lubricating Performance by Combining Oil-Soluble Hairy Silica Nanoparticles and an Ionic Liquid as an Additive for a Synthetic Base Oil
Abstract
This article reports on improved lubricating performance by combining oil-soluble poly(lauryl methacrylate) brush-grafted silica nanoparticles (hairy NPs or HNP) and an oil-miscible phosphonium-phosphate ionic liquid (IL) as a friction-reducing additive for a polyalphaolefin (PAO) oil. The HNP was synthesized by surface-initiated reversible addition–fragmentation chain transfer polymerization. At a total concentration of 2% and sufficiently high individual concentrations for HNP and IL in PAO, high-contact stress, ball-on-flat reciprocating tribological tests showed that the friction decreased by up to 23% compared with 2% HNP alone in PAO and by up to 35% compared to the PAO mixed with 2% IL. Scanning electron microscopy, energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy, and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) analysis revealed that the tribofilm formed from the PAO containing 1% HNP + 1% IL was enriched with both Si and P, indicating that both hairy NPs and IL were involved in the tribochemical reactions. In addition, the O 1s and Si 2p peaks in the core-level XPS spectra exhibited significant shifts for the mixture of 1% HNP + 1% IL compared to those for 2% HNP, suggesting the possible formation of new covalent bonds. These results indicated that HNP and IL reacted with each other and also with the metalmore »
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- Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
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- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
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- USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)
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- AC05-00OR22725
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- ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces
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- Journal Volume: 10; Journal Issue: 17; Journal ID: ISSN 1944-8244
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- American Chemical Society (ACS)
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- United States
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- English
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- 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE
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Seymour, Bryan T., Fu, Wenxin, Wright, Roger A. E., Luo, Huimin, Qu, Jun, Dai, Sheng, and Zhao, Bin. Improved Lubricating Performance by Combining Oil-Soluble Hairy Silica Nanoparticles and an Ionic Liquid as an Additive for a Synthetic Base Oil. United States: N. p., 2018.
Web. doi:10.1021/acsami.8b01579.
Seymour, Bryan T., Fu, Wenxin, Wright, Roger A. E., Luo, Huimin, Qu, Jun, Dai, Sheng, & Zhao, Bin. Improved Lubricating Performance by Combining Oil-Soluble Hairy Silica Nanoparticles and an Ionic Liquid as an Additive for a Synthetic Base Oil. United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.8b01579
Seymour, Bryan T., Fu, Wenxin, Wright, Roger A. E., Luo, Huimin, Qu, Jun, Dai, Sheng, and Zhao, Bin. Thu .
"Improved Lubricating Performance by Combining Oil-Soluble Hairy Silica Nanoparticles and an Ionic Liquid as an Additive for a Synthetic Base Oil". United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.8b01579. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1436936.
@article{osti_1436936,
title = {Improved Lubricating Performance by Combining Oil-Soluble Hairy Silica Nanoparticles and an Ionic Liquid as an Additive for a Synthetic Base Oil},
author = {Seymour, Bryan T. and Fu, Wenxin and Wright, Roger A. E. and Luo, Huimin and Qu, Jun and Dai, Sheng and Zhao, Bin},
abstractNote = {This article reports on improved lubricating performance by combining oil-soluble poly(lauryl methacrylate) brush-grafted silica nanoparticles (hairy NPs or HNP) and an oil-miscible phosphonium-phosphate ionic liquid (IL) as a friction-reducing additive for a polyalphaolefin (PAO) oil. The HNP was synthesized by surface-initiated reversible addition–fragmentation chain transfer polymerization. At a total concentration of 2% and sufficiently high individual concentrations for HNP and IL in PAO, high-contact stress, ball-on-flat reciprocating tribological tests showed that the friction decreased by up to 23% compared with 2% HNP alone in PAO and by up to 35% compared to the PAO mixed with 2% IL. Scanning electron microscopy, energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy, and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) analysis revealed that the tribofilm formed from the PAO containing 1% HNP + 1% IL was enriched with both Si and P, indicating that both hairy NPs and IL were involved in the tribochemical reactions. In addition, the O 1s and Si 2p peaks in the core-level XPS spectra exhibited significant shifts for the mixture of 1% HNP + 1% IL compared to those for 2% HNP, suggesting the possible formation of new covalent bonds. These results indicated that HNP and IL reacted with each other and also with the metal substrate during the rubbing process, which likely strengthened the tribofilm and its bonding with the substrate and thus further improved the lubrication.},
doi = {10.1021/acsami.8b01579},
journal = {ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces},
number = 17,
volume = 10,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Apr 05 00:00:00 EDT 2018},
month = {Thu Apr 05 00:00:00 EDT 2018}
}
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