Carbon materials have a large variety of categories like diamond, graphite, graphene, diamond-like carbon, and carbon nanotubes. They have their own and special excellent tribological properties, being expected to use in many fields. For example, diamond-like carbon is a very hard and low-friction protective coating and has been practically used in industry, while graphene is useful to construct superlubrication systems owing to the superlow interlayer shear stress. The applications of carbon materials range from coatings or lubrication additives. These excellent tribological properties as well as the wide application range make together the carbon materials of great potential towards the next-generation lubrication techniques. Thus, there are great needs to carry out systematic research on carbon materials, including the developments of new materials/tribosystems, theoretical understandings of the lubrication mechanisms, and findings of new tribological properties/phenomena.
The goals of this Research Topic is summarized as follows:
1) Developing new lubricants, new tribosystems, and new techniques based on carbon materials to achieve better lubricity or anti-wear performance than ever, which would contribute to the advance in lubrication technologies.
2) Finding new tribological properties of carbon materials and tribological phenomena.
3) Understanding the mechanisms of friction, wear, and surface chemical reactions of carbon-based materials by either experiments or atomistic simulations, which would be useful to guide the further development of materials and lubrication systems.
4) Establishing the theoretical models to explain and predict friction/wear behaviors of carbon materials under various lubrication condition.
We welcome Original Research, Review, Mini Review and Perspective articles on themes including, but are not limited to:
• Development of new carbon-based lubricants
• Novel lubrication strategies based on graphite, diamond, and amorphous carbon
• Mechanisms of low-friction and anti-wear properties
• Tribochemical reactions at the friction interface of carbon-based materials
• Theoretical modelling of carbon-based lubrication
• Low-dimension materials used as additive and lubricant
Keywords:
Carbon, Lubrication, Wear, Diamond-like carbon, Graphene, Carbon Nanotubes
Important Note:
All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.
Carbon materials have a large variety of categories like diamond, graphite, graphene, diamond-like carbon, and carbon nanotubes. They have their own and special excellent tribological properties, being expected to use in many fields. For example, diamond-like carbon is a very hard and low-friction protective coating and has been practically used in industry, while graphene is useful to construct superlubrication systems owing to the superlow interlayer shear stress. The applications of carbon materials range from coatings or lubrication additives. These excellent tribological properties as well as the wide application range make together the carbon materials of great potential towards the next-generation lubrication techniques. Thus, there are great needs to carry out systematic research on carbon materials, including the developments of new materials/tribosystems, theoretical understandings of the lubrication mechanisms, and findings of new tribological properties/phenomena.
The goals of this Research Topic is summarized as follows:
1) Developing new lubricants, new tribosystems, and new techniques based on carbon materials to achieve better lubricity or anti-wear performance than ever, which would contribute to the advance in lubrication technologies.
2) Finding new tribological properties of carbon materials and tribological phenomena.
3) Understanding the mechanisms of friction, wear, and surface chemical reactions of carbon-based materials by either experiments or atomistic simulations, which would be useful to guide the further development of materials and lubrication systems.
4) Establishing the theoretical models to explain and predict friction/wear behaviors of carbon materials under various lubrication condition.
We welcome Original Research, Review, Mini Review and Perspective articles on themes including, but are not limited to:
• Development of new carbon-based lubricants
• Novel lubrication strategies based on graphite, diamond, and amorphous carbon
• Mechanisms of low-friction and anti-wear properties
• Tribochemical reactions at the friction interface of carbon-based materials
• Theoretical modelling of carbon-based lubrication
• Low-dimension materials used as additive and lubricant
Keywords:
Carbon, Lubrication, Wear, Diamond-like carbon, Graphene, Carbon Nanotubes
Important Note:
All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.