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How Carbon-Based Nanosheets Protect: Mechanistic Models

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Graphite- and graphene-based surface protective films are shown to undergo different tangent impacts in working units and mechanisms. The thicker the graphite film is, the more it is subjected to deterioration because tangential components of acting forces turn into normal ones because of distortion of the graphite lattice and elasticity of the interlayer van der Waals bonds. Critical pressure of sliding friction force on the film has been estimated according to real conditions in a combustion engine. The amplification effect has been evaluated and shown to be roughly proportional to a number of layers in the film. The function-amplifier has been constructed, its asymptotical behaviour at small and big number of layers has been analysed. An expression in quadrature representing the working surface wear on the basis of deteriorated film area and working pressure with its fluctuations has been proposed. Its structure is related to a mutual correction of factors related to how (i) intensively and (ii) extensively the surface fragments are affected through the wear.

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  1. This is related to some error because the action of the force’s normal component can be transmitted with some retardation and weakening along the lattice in the tangential direction. However, on account of a big number of layers in the film (about 200 for the film thickness 60 nm as an example) this effect is negligible.

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  1. Angara GmbH, 40470, Düsseldorf, Germany

    Michael Vigdorowitsch

  2. Use of Machinery and Oil Products in Agriculture, All-Russian Scientific Research Institute, Tambov, Russia, 392022

    Michael Vigdorowitsch, Valery V. Ostrikov & Sergey N. Sazonov

  3. Tambov State Technical University, Tambov, Russia, 392000

    Michael Vigdorowitsch

  4. Michurinsk State Agrarian University, Michurinsk, Tambov Region, Russia, 393760

    Valery V. Ostrikov

  5. Saratov State Vavilov Agrarian University, Saratov, Russia, 410012

    Valentin V. Safonov

  6. Voronezh State Agrarian University After Emperor Peter The First, Voronezh, Russia, 394087

    Vladimir I. Orobinsky

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Vigdorowitsch, M., Ostrikov, V.V., Sazonov, S.N. et al. How Carbon-Based Nanosheets Protect: Mechanistic Models. Tribol Lett 69, 102 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11249-021-01478-y

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