Superlubricity on the nanometer scale

Ernst MEYER; Enrico GNECCO

doi:10.1007/s40544-014-0052-4

Friction 2014, 2(2): 106-113 https://doi.org/10.1007/s40544-014-0052-4

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Superlubricity on the nanometer scale

Show Author's Information Hide Author's Information Ernst MEYER^¹(

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1 Department of Physics, University of Basel, Klingelbergstr. 82, 4056 Basel, Switzerland

2 IMDEA Nanociencia, Campus Universitario de Cantoblanco, Calle Faraday 9, 28049 Madrid, Spain

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atomic force microscopy, structural lubricity, dynamic superlubricity, friction force microscopy, themolubricity, Prandtl−Tomlinson model

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MEYER E, GNECCO E. Superlubricity on the nanometer scale. Friction, 2014, 2(2): 106-113. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40544-014-0052-4

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The transition from atomic stick-slip to continuous sliding has been observed in a number of ways. If extended contacts are moved in different directions, so-called structural lubricity is observed when the two surface lattices are non-matching. Alternatively, a "superlubric" state of motion can be achieved if the normal force is reduced below a certain threshold, the temperature is increased, or the contact is actuated mechanically. These processes have been partially demonstrated using atomic force microscopy, and they can be theoretically understood by proper modifications of the Prandtl−Tomlinson model.

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Superlubricity on the nanometer scale

Show Author's information Hide Author's Information Ernst MEYER^¹(

), Enrico GNECCO^²

1 Department of Physics, University of Basel, Klingelbergstr. 82, 4056 Basel, Switzerland

2 IMDEA Nanociencia, Campus Universitario de Cantoblanco, Calle Faraday 9, 28049 Madrid, Spain

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Keywords: atomic force microscopy, structural lubricity, dynamic superlubricity, friction force microscopy, themolubricity, Prandtl−Tomlinson model

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Received: 31 March 2014

Revised: 28 April 2014

Accepted: 14 May 2014

Published: 03 June 2014

Issue date: June 2014

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E. M. acknowledges financial support by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF), the Commission for Technology and Innovation (CTI), COST Action MP1303 and the Swiss Nanoscience Institute (SNI). E. G. acknowledges the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO) Project MAT2012- 26312.

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