A low-cost, non-hazardous protocol for surface texturing of glass particles

Anelechi Ibekwe; Yukie Tanino; Dubravka Pokrajac

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A low-cost, non-hazardous protocol for surface texturing of glass particles

Anelechi Ibekwe, Yukie Tanino^* (Corresponding Author), Dubravka Pokrajac

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Abstract

We present a cheap, efficient, and non-hazardous protocol for altering the roughness of hard particles at the nanometer-scale using a stone tumbler, a tool which is normally used for polishing stones. Six different textures were achieved by lining the tumbler with sandpaper of mean grit diameters dg=201 , 58.5, 18.3, 12.6, and 8.4μm . Two textures were created by tumbling a batch of glass spheres for 4 h and for 12 h with the 12.6μm sandpaper; all other textures were established by tumbling for 12 h. Surface roughness was characterized by the integral length scale, ξ , evaluated from 7 nm/pix resolution scanning electron microscope images. Roughness size increased from ξ=24 to 31 nm as the grit size decreased from dg=201 to 18.3μm , and then decreased to ξ=6.4nm at the smallest dg . The largest ξ(=34nm) was achieved using a 12.6μm sandpaper and the shorter tumbling time of 4 h. The permeability of a packed column of the particles broadly decreased with increasing ξ , indicating that permeability decreases with increasing roughness size.

Original language	English
Article number	115
Number of pages	6
Journal	Tribology Letters
Volume	67
Issue number	4
Early online date	30 Sept 2019
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11249-019-1230-3
Publication status	Published - Dec 2019

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Acknowledgements
This material contains work supported by an Aberdeen Formation Evaluation Society student bursary and a Society of Petrophysicists and Well Log Analysts Foundation grant. AI was supported by a University of Aberdeen School of Engineering Elphinstone Ph.D. studentship. Electron microscopy was performed in the ACEMAC Facility at University of Aberdeen; the authors thank John Still for the acquisition of the SEM images. The authors gratefully acknowledge Alfred R. Akisanya and Mark Gourlay for helpful suggestions on the texturing protocol. The authors thank the anonymous reviewer for his/her comments. All data used in this study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.

Keywords

surface roughness
SEM
abrasive wear
glass
polishing
permeability
surface metrology
correlation length
WETTABILITY
SOLID-SURFACES
Glass
SIZE
Polishing
Surface roughness
Permeability
Surface metrology
ROUGHNESS
FLOW
IMPACT
Abrasive wear
CONTACT ANGLES
Correlation length

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A low-cost, non-hazardous protocol for surface texturing of glass particles

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