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Temperature and velocity dependent friction of a microscale graphite-DLC heterostructure

Show Author's Information Yujie GONGYANG1,2,  Wengen OUYANG3( ),  Cangyu QU1,2,  Michael URBAKH3,4,  Baogang QUAN5,6,  Ming MA7,8( ),  Quanshui ZHENG1,2,8
Department of Engineering Mechanics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
Center for Nano and Micro Mechanics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
School of Chemistry and The Sackler Center for Computational Molecular and Materials Science, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
The Raymond and Beverly Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics and Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
School of Physical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
State Key Laboratory of Tribology, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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friction, graphite, irradiation, diamond like carbon, desorption
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One of the promising approaches to achieving large scale superlubricity is the use of junctions between existing ultra-flat surface together with superlubric graphite mesas. Here we studied the frictional properties of microscale graphite mesa sliding on the diamond-like carbon, a commercially available material with a ultra-flat surface. The interface is composed of a single crystalline graphene and a diamond-like carbon surface with roughness less than 1 nm. Using an integrated approach, which includes Argon plasma irradiation of diamond-like carbon surfaces, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy analysis and Langmuir adsorption modeling, we found that while the velocity dependence of friction follows a thermally activated sliding mechanism, its temperature dependence is due to the desorption of chemical groups upon heating. These observations indicate that the edges have a significant contribution to the friction. Our results highlight potential factors affecting this type of emerging friction junctions and provide a novel approach for tuning their friction properties through ion irradiation.


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Temperature and velocity dependent friction of a microscale graphite-DLC heterostructure

Show Author's information Yujie GONGYANG1,2, Wengen OUYANG3( ), Cangyu QU1,2, Michael URBAKH3,4, Baogang QUAN5,6, Ming MA7,8( ), Quanshui ZHENG1,2,8
Department of Engineering Mechanics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
Center for Nano and Micro Mechanics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
School of Chemistry and The Sackler Center for Computational Molecular and Materials Science, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
The Raymond and Beverly Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics and Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
School of Physical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
State Key Laboratory of Tribology, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China

Abstract

One of the promising approaches to achieving large scale superlubricity is the use of junctions between existing ultra-flat surface together with superlubric graphite mesas. Here we studied the frictional properties of microscale graphite mesa sliding on the diamond-like carbon, a commercially available material with a ultra-flat surface. The interface is composed of a single crystalline graphene and a diamond-like carbon surface with roughness less than 1 nm. Using an integrated approach, which includes Argon plasma irradiation of diamond-like carbon surfaces, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy analysis and Langmuir adsorption modeling, we found that while the velocity dependence of friction follows a thermally activated sliding mechanism, its temperature dependence is due to the desorption of chemical groups upon heating. These observations indicate that the edges have a significant contribution to the friction. Our results highlight potential factors affecting this type of emerging friction junctions and provide a novel approach for tuning their friction properties through ion irradiation.

Keywords: friction, graphite, irradiation, diamond like carbon, desorption

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Received: 11 January 2019
Revised: 28 February 2019
Accepted: 11 March 2019
Published: 04 June 2019
Issue date: April 2020

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Wengen Ouyang acknowledges the financial support from a fellowship program for outstanding postdoctoral researchers from China and India in Israeli Universities. Ming Ma wishes to acknowledge the financial support by Thousand Young Talents Program and the NSFC grant Nos. 11632009, 11772168, and 11890673. Quanshui Zheng wishes to acknowledge the financial support by the NSFC grant No. 11890671.

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