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From ice superlubricity to quantum friction: Electronic repulsivity and phononic elasticity

Xi ZHANG1( )Yongli HUANG2Zengsheng MA2Lengyuan NIU3Chang Qing SUN4( )
 Institute of Nanosurface Science and Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China
 Key Laboratory of Low-dimensional Materials and Application Technology (MOE) and School of Materials Science and Engineering, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan 411105, China
 Institute of Coordination Bond Metrology and Engineering, College of Materials Science and Engineering, China Jiliang University, Hangzhou 310018, China
 NOVITAS, School of EEE, Nanyang Technological University, 639798, Singapore
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Abstract

Superlubricity means non-sticky and frictionless when two bodies are set contacting motion. Although this occurrence has been extensively investigated since 1859 when Faraday firstly proposed a quasiliquid skin on ice, the mechanism behind the superlubricity remains uncertain. This report features a consistent understanding of the superlubricity pertaining to the slipperiness of ice, self-lubrication of dry solids, and aqueous lubricancy from the perspective of skin bond-electron-phonon adaptive relaxation. The presence of nonbonding electron polarization, atomic or molecular undercoordination, and solute ionic electrification of the hydrogen bond as an addition, ensures the superlubricity. Nonbond vibration creates soft phonons of high magnitude and low frequency with extraordinary adaptivity and recoverability of deformation. Molecular undercoordination shortens the covalent bond with local charge densification, which in turn polarizes the nonbonding electrons making them localized dipoles. The locally pinned dipoles provide force opposing contact, mimicking magnetic levitation and hovercraft. O:H−O bond electrification by aqueous ions has the same effect of molecular undercoordination but it is throughout the entire body of the lubricant. Such a Coulomb repulsivity due to the negatively charged skins and elastic adaptivity due to soft nonbonding phonons of one of the contacting objects not only lowers the effective contacting force but also prevents charge from being transited between the counterparts of the contact. Consistency between theory predictions and observations evidences the validity of the proposal of interface elastic Coulomb repulsion that serves as the rule for the superlubricity of ice, wet and dry frictions, which also reconciles the superhydrophobicity, superlubricity, and supersolidity at contacts.

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ZHANG X, HUANG Y, MA Z, et al. From ice superlubricity to quantum friction: Electronic repulsivity and phononic elasticity. Friction, 2015, 3(4): 294-319. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40544-015-0097-z

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Published: 23 December 2015
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