Non-Amontons Frictional Behaviors of Grain Boundaries at Layered Material Interfaces

Overview

Journal Nat Commun

Specialty Biology

Date 2024 Nov 3

PMID 39488520

Authors

Yiming Song

Xiang Gao

Remy Pawlak

Shuyu Huang

Antoine Hinaut

Thilo Glatzel

Oded Hod

Michael Urbakh

Ernst Meyer

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Abstract

Against conventional wisdom, corrugated grain boundaries in polycrystalline graphene, grown on Pt(111) surfaces, are shown to exhibit negative friction coefficients and non-monotonic velocity dependence. Using combined experimental, simulation, and modeling efforts, the underlying energy dissipation mechanism is found to be dominated by dynamic buckling of grain boundary dislocation protrusions. The revealed mechanism is expected to appear in a wide range of polycrystalline two-dimensional material interfaces, thus supporting the design of large-scale dry superlubric contacts.

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