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A Comparative Study on the Tribological Behavior of Nanocrystalline Nickel and Coarse-grained Nickel Coatings under Ionic Liquid Lubrication

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Tribological properties of nanocrystalline (NC) nickel coating and coarse-grained nickel coating were evaluated using a ball-on-flat sliding tester. Results indicated that the NC nickel coating had excellent tribological properties. This was partly attributed to the high hardness of the NC nickel coating and the tribochemical interactions between rubbing pairs and ionic liquid.

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The authors would like to thank the financial support of this work by China National 973 Program (2007CB607601) and National Natural Science Foundation of China (50772115), Hundreds Talent Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences for financial support of this research work. The authors also thank Bo Wang for his help with the XPS analysis.

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    Yanqiu Xia, Liping Wang, Xuqing Liu & Yulin Qiao

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Xia, Y., Wang, L., Liu, X. et al. A Comparative Study on the Tribological Behavior of Nanocrystalline Nickel and Coarse-grained Nickel Coatings under Ionic Liquid Lubrication. Tribol Lett 30, 151–157 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11249-008-9322-5

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