Mini Review on the Significance Nano-Lubricants in Boundary Lubrication Regime

TL;DR

This review discusses the importance of nano-lubricants in boundary lubrication, highlighting their potential to reduce friction and wear through nanomaterial additives, especially under heavy load and low-speed conditions.

Contribution

It summarizes current knowledge on the advantages of nanomaterials as additives in boundary lubrication, emphasizing their role in friction and wear reduction.

Findings

Nano-lubricants effectively reduce friction and wear in boundary regimes.

Nanomaterials enhance lubrication performance under heavy load and low-speed conditions.

Surface interactions and chemical reactions are key to nanolubricant effectiveness.

Abstract

This article briefly reviews the significance nano-lubricants and assesses their effectiveness to provide the most promising approaches to reduce the friction and anti-wear/scuffing over the boundary regime. The main purpose of this review is to summarize the present knowledge about major advantages of the nanomaterials as nanolubricant additives in boundary lubrication. It is very complex regime involving surface topography, metallurgy, physical adsorption and chemical reactions. There is no intent to present an exhaustive survey of the literature, but it presents the main reasons for decreasing the friction and wear based on lubricated by nanolubricants during heavy load and low-speed conditions.