摘要
The emergence of vegetable oil as a promising alternative lubricant in the tribological application space has fueled research for making these oils as useful as mineral oils.Tribological modification of vegetable oil by the addition of TiO_(2)/gC_(3)N_(4)nanocomposite(as a nanoadditive)was studied here.The dispersion of the nanoadditive in the vegetable oil showed good oil dispersion stability without the addition of any surfactant.The tribological studies were conducted in a four-ball tester using ASTM standard D5183.In addition,the effect of temperature on tribological performance was also studied to understand the oxidation behavior of vegetable oil.The results showed a significant improvement in friction and wear properties of the optimized nano-oil.The mechanism behind the improvement in friction and wear properties is annotated in this paper.
出处
《Friction》
SCIE
EI
CAS
CSCD
2021年第2期273-287,共15页
摩擦（英文版）
基金
The authors thank the Department of Science and Technology(DST)for the financial support to establish Nano Functional Materials Technology Centre(NFMTC)through SR/NM/NAT/02-2005 project
Also,we would like to thank IIT Madras,Chennai,India.The SEM and Optical profilometry imaging have been carried out in Department of Metallurgical&Materials Engineering,IIT Madras.
