Comprehensive characterization of ball-milled powders simulating a tribofilm system

Autor: Ines Häusler, Paul Dietrich, Wolfgang E. S. Unger, Werner Österle, I. Dörfel, Burkhard Peplinski
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: Materials Characterization. 111:183-192
ISSN: 1044-5803
DOI: 10.1016/j.matchar.2015.11.024
Popis: A model system was used to simulate the properties of tribofilms which form during automotive braking. The model system was prepared by ball milling of a blend of 70 vol.% iron oxides, 15 vol.% molybdenum disulfide and 15 vol.% graphite. The resulting mixture was characterized by X-ray powder diffraction (XRD), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), and various transmission electron microscopic (TEM) methods, including energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDXS), high resolution investigations (HRTEM) with corresponding simulation of the HRTEM images, diffraction methods such as scanning nano-beam electron diffraction (SNBED) and selected area electron diffraction (SAED). It could be shown that the ball milling caused a reduction of the grain size of the initial components to the nanometer range. Sometimes even amorphization or partial break-down of the crystal structure was observed for MoS2 and graphite. Moreover, chemical reactions lead to a formation of surface coverings of the nanoparticles by amorphous material, molybdenum oxides, and iron sulfates as derived from XPS.
Databáze: OpenAIRE