TS.VI.F
11:30 - 13:00
| Self-lubricant materials: basic mechanisms and applications from the macro scale down to the micro and nano scale | ||
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| The session is aimed to the introduction and discussion of recent advances on self-lubricant materials. These materials i) are of interest for a number of applications where the conventional fluid lubrication does not apply, and ii) are challenging for the basic processes involved in the solid lubrication. Session will focus on carbon-based materials (graphene, diamond-like carbon, ...) and metal dichalcogenides (molybdenum disulfide, …). Emphasis will be on the identification of different friction and wear mechanisms operating at the macro and at the micro-nano scale, in different operating environments (vacuum, controlled atmosphere, ambient conditions) and for different architectures of the materials. Possible tribochemistry effects will be also discussed. Morphological, structural, chemical-stoichiometric characterizations, and functional tribological tests of the materials will be presented through advanced “state-of-the-art” multi-scale analytical techniques. Finally, during the session, strategies and channels for an effective technological transfer to applications over a wide scale range will be discussed. |
