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Nano Research 2022, 15(8): 7384-7391 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-022-4348-9
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Capillary grip-induced stick-slip motion

Show Author's Information Sangmin An1,2,  Manhee Lee3,  Bongsu Kim1,†,  Wonho Jhe1( )
Department of Physics & Astronomy, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea
Department of Physics, Institute of Photonics and Information Technology, Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju 54896, Republic of Korea
Department of Physics, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, Chungbuk 28644, Republic of Korea
Present address: Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT), Samsung Electronics, Suwon 16678, Republic of Korea
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relative humidity, dynamic force measurement, nanoscale water meniscus, lateral force, stick-slip motion
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An S, Lee M, Kim B, et al. Capillary grip-induced stick-slip motion. Nano Research, 2022, 15(8): 7384-7391. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-022-4348-9
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We present capillary grip-induced stick-slip motion, a nanoscale tribological effect, where the role of a nanoscale confined water meniscus formed between a buckled sharp tip and a glass or mica surface is addressed by shear dynamic force measurement. We obtained the effective elasticity, viscosity, conservative (elastic) and non-conservative (viscous) forces, energy dissipation, and lateral force using small oscillation, amplitude-modulation, and shear-mode quartz tuning fork-atomic force microscopy (QTF-AFM). We distinguished the conservative and non-conservative forces by investigating the dependence of normal load and relative humidity, slip length, and stick-slip frequency. We found that the confined nanoscale water enhances the lateral forces via capillary grip-induced stick-slip on a rough surface, resulting in an increase of static lateral force (3-fold for both substrates) and kinetic lateral force (6-fold for glass, 3-fold for mica). This work provides quantitative and systematic understanding of nanoscale tribology properties in humid ambient conditions and is thus useful for control of friction as well as characterization of tribology in nanomaterials and nanodevices.


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Capillary grip-induced stick-slip motion

Show Author's information Sangmin An1,2, Manhee Lee3, Bongsu Kim1,†, Wonho Jhe1( )
Department of Physics & Astronomy, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea
Department of Physics, Institute of Photonics and Information Technology, Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju 54896, Republic of Korea
Department of Physics, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, Chungbuk 28644, Republic of Korea
Present address: Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT), Samsung Electronics, Suwon 16678, Republic of Korea

Abstract

We present capillary grip-induced stick-slip motion, a nanoscale tribological effect, where the role of a nanoscale confined water meniscus formed between a buckled sharp tip and a glass or mica surface is addressed by shear dynamic force measurement. We obtained the effective elasticity, viscosity, conservative (elastic) and non-conservative (viscous) forces, energy dissipation, and lateral force using small oscillation, amplitude-modulation, and shear-mode quartz tuning fork-atomic force microscopy (QTF-AFM). We distinguished the conservative and non-conservative forces by investigating the dependence of normal load and relative humidity, slip length, and stick-slip frequency. We found that the confined nanoscale water enhances the lateral forces via capillary grip-induced stick-slip on a rough surface, resulting in an increase of static lateral force (3-fold for both substrates) and kinetic lateral force (6-fold for glass, 3-fold for mica). This work provides quantitative and systematic understanding of nanoscale tribology properties in humid ambient conditions and is thus useful for control of friction as well as characterization of tribology in nanomaterials and nanodevices.

Keywords: relative humidity, dynamic force measurement, nanoscale water meniscus, lateral force, stick-slip motion

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Received: 07 January 2022
Revised: 20 March 2022
Accepted: 22 March 2022
Published: 18 May 2022
Issue date: August 2022

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This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korea government (Ministry of Science, ICT & Future Planning, MSIP) (Nos. 2016R1A3B1908660 and 2017R1C1B5076655) and (Ministry of Education and Science Technology, MEST) (No. 2020R1I1A1A01070755).

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