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RARE ME TALS Vol. 31,N o. 6, Dec . 2012, p. 560 DOI : 10.1007/s12598 012 0558 8 Sur face textur in g for ad aptive Ag/MoS2 solid lubr icant plating a a b b HUANG Zhongjia , LIU Minglang , XIONG Dangsheng , and LI Jianliang a Anhui Key Labor atory of High Performance Non Ferr ous Metal Mater ia ls, Anhui P olyte chnic Univer sity, Wuhu 241000, China b Department of Mater ials Sc ienc e and Engine er ing, Nanj ing University of Science and Technology, Nanj ing 2 10094, China Received 1April 2012;r eceived in revised form 16 May 20 12; accepted 15 June20 12 ©The N onferrous Metals Society of China and Springer Verlag Berlin H eidelber g 2012 Ab stra ct Th e objective of this research is to prep are specially designed surface texture on hard steel surface by electrochemical micromachining (EM) and to in corporate electroless plated Ag/MoS2 solid lubricant coating into the dimples of EM textured steel surface to effectively redu ce fric tion and wear of steel steel contacts. Th e friction and wear behavior of th e Ag/MoS2 solid lubricant coating on EM textured steel surface was evaluated in relation to th e size and sp acing of the dimples thereon . Th e microstructure of as plated Ag/MoS2 solid lubricant coating and the morphology and elemental composition of th e worn coating surface and counterface steel surface were analyzed by mean s of optical mi croscopy , scanning electron microscopy , and energy dispersive sp ectrometry. It is found that electroless p lated Ag/MoS2 coating is ab le to greatly reduce th e friction and wear of the EM textured steel disc coup led with GCr15 steel ring, mainly becau se of th e formation of solid self lubricating layer on the EM textured steel surface and of transferred lubricating film on counterface steel surface. The diameter and sp acing of th e dimples are suggested as 500 μ