Adhesion-dependent negative friction coefficient on chemically modified graphite at the nanoscale

Nature Materials

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1032-1037

  Deng, Zhao ^a,b   Smolyanitsky, Alex ^a   Li, Qunyang ^c   Feng, Xi Qiao ^c   Cannara, Rachel J ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFM; AFM TIP; APPLIED LOADS; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPE (AFM); ATOMIC LAYER; CHEMICALLY MODIFIED; GRAPHITE SURFACES; MECHANICAL MODEL; NANO SCALE; NANOSCALE FRICTION; NEGATIVE COEFFICIENTS; NEGATIVE FRICTION; NORMAL LOADS; PREDICTIVE CAPACITY; PROBE TIPS; SINGLE LAYER; TRIBOLOGICAL PROPERTIES;

ADHESION; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CONTINUUM MECHANICS; GRAPHENE; GRAPHITE; NANOPROBES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; TRIBOLOGY;

FRICTION;

EID: 84869990436     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat3452     Document Type: Article

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