TY - JOUR A1 - Österle, Werner A1 - Orts Gil, Guillermo A1 - Gross, Thomas A1 - Deutsch, Cornelius A1 - Hinrichs, R. A1 - Vasconcellos, M.A.Z. A1 - Zoz, H. A1 - Yigit, D. A1 - Sun, X. T1 - Impact of high energy ball milling on the nanostructure of magnetite-graphite and magnetite-graphite-molybdenum disulphide blends N2 - Different, partly complementary and partly redundant characterization methods were applied to study the transition of magnetite, graphite and MoS2 powders to mechanically alloyed nanostructures. The applied methods were: Transmission electron microscopy (TEM), Mössbauer spectroscopy (MS), Raman spectroscopy (RS), X-ray diffraction (XRD) and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). The main objective was to prepare a model material providing the essential features of a typical tribofilm forming during automotive braking, and to assess the impact of different constituents on sliding behaviour and friction level. Irrespective of the initial grain size, the raw materials were transferred to a nanocrystalline structure and mixed on a nanoscopic scale during high energy ball milling. Whereas magnetite remained almost unchanged, graphite and molybdenum disulphide were transformed to a nanocrystalline and highly disordered structure. The observed increase of the coefficient of friction was attributed to a loss of lubricity of the latter ingredient due to this transformation and subsequent oxidation. KW - Ball milling KW - Mössbauer spectroscopy KW - Raman spectroscopy KW - Transmission electron microscopy KW - X-ray diffraction KW - X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy PY - 2013 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matchar.2013.09.007 SN - 1044-5803 SN - 1873-4189 VL - 86 SP - 28 EP - 38 PB - Elsevier Inc. CY - New York, NY AN - OPUS4-29697 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -