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Fabric composites are widely applied as self-lubricating liner for radial spherical plain bearings owing to their excellent mechanical and tribological properties. Nevertheless, the poor interfacial strength between fibers and the resin matrix limits the performance of composites utilized as tribo-materials. To overcome this drawback, a mild layer-by-layer (LbL) self-assembly method was successfully used to construct hybrid fabric composites in the present work. In addition, this investigation addressed the effect of self-assembly cycles on the friction and wear behaviors of hybrid fabric composites under dry sliding condition. The results demonstrate that fabric composites with three or more self-assembly cycles have significantly enhanced surface activities and anti-wear performances. The results obtained in this work can provide guidance in the preparation of selflubricating liner composites and highlight how the LbL self-assembly techniques could influence the properties of hybrid fabric composites.
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This work was supported by the National Nature Science Foundation of China (Nos. 51805516 and 51675252).
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Mingming YANG. He is currently an assistant researcher at Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy Science. He received his bachelor degree in chemistry from Longdong University in 2012. He joined Prof. Zhaozhu Zhang's group at Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics in 2012. His current research interests are focused on improving the tribological properties of the polymer composite coating, fabric reinforced composite, and studying the corresponding mechanism.
Zhaozhu ZHANG. He is currently a group leader at Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy Science. He received his Ph.D degree from Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics in 1998. His current research interests cover the tribology of composite materials, designing functional surfaces with special wetting behavior, and engineering coatings for drag-reduction. He has published over 150 journal papers and gained a number of national scientific awards.
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Yang, M., Zhang, Z., Yuan, J. et al. Fabrication of PTFE/Nomex fabric/phenolic composites using a layer-by-layer self-assembly method for tribology field application. Friction 8, 335–342 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40544-019-0260-z
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