DOI: 10.1126/science.1184167. Frictional Characteristics of Atomically Thin Sheets [Penn]

Frictional Characteristics of Atomically Thin Sheets

10.1126/science.1184167

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Abstract

Thin FrictionThe rubbing motion between two surfaces is always hindered by friction, which is caused by continuous contacting and attraction between the surfaces. These interactions may only occur over a distance of a few nanometers, but what happens when the interacting materials are only that thick?Leeet al.(p.76; see the Perspective byMüser and Shakhvorostov) explored the frictional properties of a silicon tip in contact with four atomically thin quasi–two dimensional materials with different electrical properties. For all the materials, the friction was seen to increase as the thickness of the film decreased, both for flakes supported by substrates and for regions placed above holes that formed freely suspended membranes. Placing graphene on mica, to which it strongly adheres, suppressed this trend. For these thin, weakly adhered films, out-of-plane buckling is likely to dominate the frictional response, which leads to this universal behavior.

Bibliography

Lee, C., Li, Q., Kalb, W., Liu, X.-Z., Berger, H., Carpick, R. W., & Hone, J. (2010). Frictional Characteristics of Atomically Thin Sheets. Science, 328(5974), 76â80.

Authors 7

Changgu Lee (first)
Qunyang Li (additional)
William Kalb (additional)
Xin-Zhou Liu (additional)
Helmuth Berger (additional)
Robert W. Carpick (additional)
James Hone (additional)

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Type	When
Created	15 years, 4 months ago (April 1, 2010, 4:36 p.m.)
Deposited	6 months ago (Feb. 19, 2025, 3:34 p.m.)
Indexed	1 day ago (Aug. 20, 2025, 8:33 a.m.)
Issued	15 years, 4 months ago (April 2, 2010)
Published	15 years, 4 months ago (April 2, 2010)
Published Print	15 years, 4 months ago (April 2, 2010)

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BibTeX

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