Superlubric sliding of graphene nanoflakes on graphene

ACS Nano

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 1718-1724

  Feng, Xiaofeng ^a,b   Kwon, Sangku ^c   Park, Jeong Young ^c   Salmeron, Miquel ^a,b  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b No 1760   (United States)

^c Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

graphene nanoflakes; incommensurability; scanning tunneling microscopy; sliding; superlubricity

Indexed keywords

FINAL STATE; FRICTIONAL FORCE MICROSCOPES; GRAPHENE LAYERS; INCOMMENSURABILITY; LOW FRICTION; LUBRICATING PROPERTIES; NANO-FLAKES; RELATIVE MOTION; ROTATIONAL MOTION; SLIDING; SLIDING DISTANCES; SUPERLUBRICITY; THERMAL FLUCTUATIONS; TIP-INDUCED;

FRICTION; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84874428649     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn305722d     Document Type: Article

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