Naturally optimized successful synovial joints with lightweight,high load-carrying,ultra-low friction and wear have attracted tribological communities to constantly imitate and replicate.Despite impressive advances in...Naturally optimized successful synovial joints with lightweight,high load-carrying,ultra-low friction and wear have attracted tribological communities to constantly imitate and replicate.Despite impressive advances in cartilage lubrication,extending such extraordinary performance advantages to macroscale solid lubrication remains a challenge.Herein,inspired by the fascinating interplay of synovial joints,a novel kind of trans-scale hierarchical structured ceramic-based composite was developed.Intro-ducing microscale Ag microspheres(AgMs)“cartilage”layer and nanoscale Ag quantum dots/MXene(AgQDs/MXene)“synovial fluid”into the interior and exterior of printed macroscale SiOC“hard bone”realistically restores the gradient structure of synovial joint prototype.The resulted composite with ideal compressive strength(70.44 MPa)can achieve a 60.53%friction reduction and a low wear rate(2.05×10^(−6)mm 3 N^(−1)m^(−1))in dry tribo-contact for 3600 sliding cycles,while also maintaining considerable low friction(∼0.11)over 10,000 sliding cycles and long-term stable lubrication(∼0.13)for up to 50,000 re-ciprocating cycles.Such extraordinary performance can be explained by the division of macro contacts,full loading of AgMs and AgQDs/MXene,abrasive debris capture and removal,as well as the shear rolling effect induced by friction process.This work opens a new avenue to develop structural lubricating mate-rials for complex engineering applications.展开更多
基金supported by the National Key R&D Program of China(No.2021YFB3701500)the National Natural Science Founda-tion of China(No.52072306)+2 种基金the National Defense Basic Scientific Research Program of China(No.JCKYS2019607001)the Fundamen-tal Research Funds for the Central Universities(Nos.3102019PJ008 and 3102018JCC002)the National Program for Support of Top-notch Young Professionals(No.W02070161).
文摘Naturally optimized successful synovial joints with lightweight,high load-carrying,ultra-low friction and wear have attracted tribological communities to constantly imitate and replicate.Despite impressive advances in cartilage lubrication,extending such extraordinary performance advantages to macroscale solid lubrication remains a challenge.Herein,inspired by the fascinating interplay of synovial joints,a novel kind of trans-scale hierarchical structured ceramic-based composite was developed.Intro-ducing microscale Ag microspheres(AgMs)“cartilage”layer and nanoscale Ag quantum dots/MXene(AgQDs/MXene)“synovial fluid”into the interior and exterior of printed macroscale SiOC“hard bone”realistically restores the gradient structure of synovial joint prototype.The resulted composite with ideal compressive strength(70.44 MPa)can achieve a 60.53%friction reduction and a low wear rate(2.05×10^(−6)mm 3 N^(−1)m^(−1))in dry tribo-contact for 3600 sliding cycles,while also maintaining considerable low friction(∼0.11)over 10,000 sliding cycles and long-term stable lubrication(∼0.13)for up to 50,000 re-ciprocating cycles.Such extraordinary performance can be explained by the division of macro contacts,full loading of AgMs and AgQDs/MXene,abrasive debris capture and removal,as well as the shear rolling effect induced by friction process.This work opens a new avenue to develop structural lubricating mate-rials for complex engineering applications.
基金National Natural Science Foundation of China((51172279,51302317)Aid Program for Science and Technology Innovative Research Team in Higher Educational Institutions of Hunan ProvinceAid Program for Innovative Group of National University of Defense Technology
