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Izabela Szlufarska, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Motivation: Understanding of fundamental mechanisms of friction and wear of ultrananocrystalline diamond (UNCD). Promising material for coating drill bits for oil recovery. Approach: Massively parallel molecular dynamics simulations using realistic potentials (background picture)
Friction at the nanoscale
Discoveredfric,onlawsatthenanoscale.Determineddependenceoffric,onforceonloadandcontactarea.
Proposedaphysicalexplana,onforexperimentallyobservedisotopeeffectonsolidfric,on.
Mo,Turner,andSzlufarska,Nature,457,1116(2009) Mo,Müser,andSzlufarska,PhysicalReviewB(inpress)
Discovered friction laws at the nanoscale. Proposed a physical explanation of why deuterium lowers friction of diamond
Increaseadhesionsub-linear
Increaseroughness
H
Reaction coordinate
D Exp 3h Theory
5.5h
Atomsincontact
• Wedemonstratedthatbehaviorofnanoscalecontactsisdescribedbyroughnesstheoriesinsteadofcon,nuummechanics• Fric,onforceiscontrolledbytheshortrangechemicalinterac,ons.
Demonstratedatransi,onfromalineartosublinearfric,on–loaddependence.Explainedpreviouslyreportedexperiments.
Fric,onforce–Realcontactarea Mo,va,on:Experimentreportedfric,onreduc,onof20%bypassiva,ngdiamondwithdeuteriuminsteadofhydrogenDischemicallymorestablethanHondiamondsurface
SurfacecoverageofH/Ddecreasesduringannealing
• Theisotopeeffectonsolidfric,onisconsistentwithdifferencesinchemicalstabilityofHandDondiamond• Afewpercentofsurfacevacancieshasalargeeffectonfric,on.