Study on Friction Reducing and Anti-wear of CaCO_3 Nanoparticles as Additives in Lubricating Oils

THE NANOMETER PARTICLES?100nm)aremetastable materials that lie between macroscopicalmaterials and atoms or molecules with thecharacteristics of little size effect,quantummeasurement effect,surface effect and macroscopicalquantum tunnel effect etc.,thus demonstrating somespecial properties.Recently,much attention has beenpaid to the application of nanometer particles due to itsspecial properties,such as low melting point,low bulkdensity and large specific surface area.For example,owing …

Study on Friction Reducing and Anti-wear of CaCO3 Nanoparticles as Additives in Lubricating Oils

This paper has insepected the size and the structure of the calcium carbonate (CaCO3) particles by adopting X-ray diffraction and transmission electron microscope (TEM). The suitable surfactants have been selected and put into lubricating oil with nanometer CaCO3 particles. By testing some parameters, such as the maximum non-seizure load, the shape and diameter of wear scar, the friction factor, the nanometer CaCO3 particles' properties of extreme pressure, anti-wear and friction reduction have been tested and analyzed. The properties of the nanometer CaCO3 particles' tribology chemistry have been analyzed through X-ray photoelectron spectrum (XPS) test. Also the nanometer CaCO3 particles' mechanism of anti-wear and friction reduction has been studied systematically. The research results show that, the lubricating oil with nanometer CaCO3 particles have good tribological properties.