Low friction and rotational dynamics of crystalline flakes in solid lubrication

Details Low friction and rotational dynamics of crystalline flakes in solid lubrication Low friction and rotational dynamics of crystalline flakes in solid lubrication

2011-08-11

arxiv.org/abs/1108.2400v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

5 pages, 5 figures

Scientific paper

Solids at incommensurate contact display low-friction, 'superlubric', sliding. For graphene flakes on a graphite surface, superlubric sliding is only temporary due to rotation of the flakes from incommensurate to commensurate contact with the substrate. We examine this rotational channel of friction in a prototype geometry of meso- and macroscopic solid lubrication. By molecular dynamics simulations and theoretical arguments we find that two surfaces lubricated by mobile, rotating graphene flakes exhibit stable superlubric sliding as for ideally incommensurate contacts also when they are covered by randomly oriented pinned graphene patches. For commensurate surfaces, we find a low friction state at low temperature where incommensurate states are not destroyed by thermal fluctuations.

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