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Comparative study of tribochemistry of ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene, polyphenylene sulfide and

Huimin Qi1, Ligang Zhang2, Ga Zhang3

  • 1State Key Laboratory of Solid Lubrication, Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.

Journal of Colloid and Interface Science
|January 7, 2018
PubMed
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Keywords:
PolyetherimidePolyphenylene sulfideTribochemistryTribofilmUltrahigh molecular weight polyethylene

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