Title :
Investigation of Microstructure and Tribological Properties of Novel
Composite Films
Author :
Di, Yuelan ; Zhihai, Cai ; Ping, Zhang
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Remanufacture Eng., Acad. of Armored Forces Eng., Beijing, China
Abstract :
The complex plating-sulfurizing process, which fitted magnetron sputtering together with low-temperature ion sulfurizing, was utilized to prepare novel CrN/MoS2 composite solid lubrication films. The composite films were characterized by means of X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) analysis, X-ray diffraction, atomic force microscopy, and friction and wear test machines (UMT-2) friction and wear tester, respectively. The experimental results show that there are CrN, Mo2N, MoS2, and Cr2S3 phases existing in the CrN/MoS2 composite films, which was demonstrated by XPS analysis results. The CrN/MoS2 composite films perform better than Cr-Mo-N films in terms of friction coefficient under oil lubrication condition at room temperature. Then, the lubrication mechanism for CrN/MoS2 composite films was analyzed.
Keywords :
X-ray diffraction; X-ray photoelectron spectra; atomic force microscopy; chromium compounds; composite materials; friction; lubrication; molybdenum compounds; sputter deposition; surface morphology; thin films; wear; wear testing; CrN-MoS2; X-ray diffraction; X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy; XPS; atomic force microscopy; composite solid lubrication films; friction coefficient; friction testing; low temperature ion sulfurizing; magnetron sputtering; microstructure; surface morphology; temperature 293 K to 298 K; tribological properties; wear testing; Friction; Plasma temperature; Rough surfaces; Sputtering; Substrates; Surface morphology; Surface roughness; $hbox{CrN/MoS}_{2}$ ; Composite films; microstructure; tribological properties;
Journal_Title :
Plasma Science, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TPS.2011.2169432