{"title":"Critical advances in superlubricity: From current challenges to sustainable development beyond laboratory","authors":"Huajie Tang, Wenli Deng, Jinjin Li, Jiaqi He, Xinchun Chen","doi":"10.26599/frict.2025.9441075","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":" <p>Emerging superlubricity provides innovative scientific and engineering solutions for the sustainable future of human beings and nature. Although great progress has been made in the development of novel superlubricity systems and different mechanisms, considerable challenges remain before the engineering development of liquid superlubricity can be realized. Herein, the progress made towards achieving liquid superlubricity has been reviewed with emphasis on the current limitations, potential mechanisms, and future breakthroughs that will be expected to overcome these limitations. The perspectives are highlighted based on rigorous statistics and analyses according to the types of lubricants and materials of friction pairs. This review elucidates the key tribochemical mechanisms and research directions to break through the current limitations and provides constructive ideas for the engineering development of liquid superlubricity in the future, which will enable a sustainable future for human beings and nature.</p> ","PeriodicalId":12442,"journal":{"name":"Friction","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":8.2000,"publicationDate":"2025-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Friction","FirstCategoryId":"5","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.26599/frict.2025.9441075","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"ENGINEERING, MECHANICAL","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Emerging superlubricity provides innovative scientific and engineering solutions for the sustainable future of human beings and nature. Although great progress has been made in the development of novel superlubricity systems and different mechanisms, considerable challenges remain before the engineering development of liquid superlubricity can be realized. Herein, the progress made towards achieving liquid superlubricity has been reviewed with emphasis on the current limitations, potential mechanisms, and future breakthroughs that will be expected to overcome these limitations. The perspectives are highlighted based on rigorous statistics and analyses according to the types of lubricants and materials of friction pairs. This review elucidates the key tribochemical mechanisms and research directions to break through the current limitations and provides constructive ideas for the engineering development of liquid superlubricity in the future, which will enable a sustainable future for human beings and nature.
期刊介绍：
Friction is a peer-reviewed international journal for the publication of theoretical and experimental research works related to the friction, lubrication and wear. Original, high quality research papers and review articles on all aspects of tribology are welcome, including, but are not limited to, a variety of topics, such as:
Friction: Origin of friction, Friction theories, New phenomena of friction, Nano-friction, Ultra-low friction, Molecular friction, Ultra-high friction, Friction at high speed, Friction at high temperature or low temperature, Friction at solid/liquid interfaces, Bio-friction, Adhesion, etc.
Lubrication: Superlubricity, Green lubricants, Nano-lubrication, Boundary lubrication, Thin film lubrication, Elastohydrodynamic lubrication, Mixed lubrication, New lubricants, New additives, Gas lubrication, Solid lubrication, etc.
Wear: Wear materials, Wear mechanism, Wear models, Wear in severe conditions, Wear measurement, Wear monitoring, etc.
Surface Engineering: Surface texturing, Molecular films, Surface coatings, Surface modification, Bionic surfaces, etc.
Basic Sciences: Tribology system, Principles of tribology, Thermodynamics of tribo-systems, Micro-fluidics, Thermal stability of tribo-systems, etc.
Friction is an open access journal. It is published quarterly by Tsinghua University Press and Springer, and sponsored by the State Key Laboratory of Tribology (TsinghuaUniversity) and the Tribology Institute of Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society.
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