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Tribological Behavior of Graphene-Filled Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) Composites.

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,手稿 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Tribological Behavior of Graphene-Filled Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) Composites./
作者:	Bhargava, Suvrat.
面頁冊數:	1 online resource (178 pages)
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-12(E), Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International78-12B(E).
標題:	Mechanical engineering. -
電子資源:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9780355078695

Tribological Behavior of Graphene-Filled Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) Composites.
Bhargava, Suvrat.

Tribological Behavior of Graphene-Filled Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) Composites. - 1 online resource (178 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-12(E), Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2017.

Includes bibliographical references

For many decades now, polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) has been used as a solid lubricant in various tribological applications. PTFE offers low friction coefficients during dry sliding against typically encountered countersurfaces, and this ability has been one of the primary reasons for its tribological uses. However, PTFE is known to wear at high rates, which can approach 10 -3 mm3/Nm, under commonly encountered conditions. Such high wear rates limit its widespread application.

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Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9780355078695Subjects--Topical Terms:

557493
Mechanical engineering.
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520 $a For many decades now, polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) has been used as a solid lubricant in various tribological applications. PTFE offers low friction coefficients during dry sliding against typically encountered countersurfaces, and this ability has been one of the primary reasons for its tribological uses. However, PTFE is known to wear at high rates, which can approach 10 -3 mm3/Nm, under commonly encountered conditions. Such high wear rates limit its widespread application.
520 $a Composites of PTFE, with micron- and nanometer-sized particles of copper, silicon nitride and gamma-phase alumina, as representative example filler materials, were prepared using the mix/press/sinter technique. Pin-on-plate type wear tests conducted on these composites demonstrated that micron-sized fillers typically outperform their nanometer-sized counterparts in imparting wear resistance to PTFE. The size of the generated wear debris indicated that larger micron-sized filler particles impart wear resistance by a common mechanism of arresting subsurface delamination crack propagation and limiting the size of the wear debris.
520 $a This work is mainly focused on understanding the role of graphene platelets---a micro/nano mixed-scale filler---in imparting wear resistance to PTFE. Composites of PTFE were prepared at different filler loadings, using graphene platelets with typical thicknesses ranging between ~1.25 nm and 60 nm. Wear tests showed that the addition of graphene platelets could lower the steady-state wear rates by more than three orders of magnitude, in comparison with unfilled PTFE. Moreover, at a given loading, the thinner graphene platelets typically provided greater wear resistance to PTFE than their thicker counterparts. Additionally, the wear behavior of the various graphene-filled PTFE composites collapsed around a "master-curve", when the wear rates were plotted against graphene surface area present in a unit mass of the composite. The friction coefficients were also largely reduced with the addition of graphene platelets to PTFE.
520 $a The effectiveness of graphene platelets, in providing wear resistance, was investigated for a few other polymers having some similarities with the molecular structure of PTFE. When added to high-density polyethylene (HDPE), graphene platelets failed to improve the wear resistance, possibly because unfilled HDPE itself already had significantly lower wear rate (~3.6 x 10-7 mm3/Nm). The addition of ~1.25 nm and 8 nm thick graphene platelets to fluorinated ethylene propylene (FEP), at 0.32 vol% and 1.1 vol%, respectively, also failed to lower the wear rate.
520 $a Thermal analysis of graphene-filled PTFE composites was performed using differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). Clear correlations could not be found between the measured wear rates and properties such as crystallinity, peak melting temperatures, and enthalpies of phase transitions happening near ambient temperatures. However, the investigation of wear-resistant graphene-filled PTFE composites, using wide-angle x-ray scattering (WAXS), revealed that the crystalline regions within the PTFE matrix had a greater resemblance to those found in the tougher phase-I of PTFE. Additional testing performed on wear-resistant PTFE composites with nanoparticles of gamma-phase alumina and activated carbon also showed that the increasing wear resistance of these composites was accompanied with the increasing structural resemblance to the tougher phase-I of PTFE.
520 $a Unworn and worn surfaces of unfilled PTFE and various graphene-filled composites were also studied using attenuated total reflectance (ATR) spectroscopy. The ATR-IR spectra obtained from worn surfaces of only highly wear-resistant (typically, ~10-6 mm3/Nm and lower) graphene-filled composites contained bands which originate due to vibrations in metal chelates. These bands were largely absent in the spectra obtained from unfilled PTFE and the unworn surfaces of its composites. The data further showed that the wear rates decreased monotonically with increasing intensities of these bands. This indicated that the presence of graphene platelets within the PTFE matrix could possibly initiate the formation of a chemically bonded and well-adhered transfer film over metallic countersurfaces, which could protect the composite during sliding wear and effectively lower its wear rate. Similar trends were also observed for other highly wear-resistant composites of PTFE with activated carbon nano-particles and micro-particles of silicon nitride and gamma-phase alumina.
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