“…Synergistic lubrication effect may improve the tribological performance of nanolubricants by integrating two or more mechanisms, and this effect is usually contributed by composite nanoadditives [21,78,84,115,118,121,225]. A synergistic effect is also reported for some other nanoadditives such as metal carbide [90], nitrides [159,160], and oxides [73,96,108,130,146,147,154], and these nanoadditives themselves play multiple roles in combining two or more lubrication effects together for enhanced lubricity.…”