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Research Article | Open Access

Phononic origin of structural lubrication

Yun DONG1,†, Yongkang WANG1,†, Zaoqi DUAN1,†, Shuyu HUANG1, Yi TAO1, Xi LU1, Yan ZHANG1, Yajing KAN1, Zhiyong WEI1( ), Deyu LI2( ), Yunfei CHEN1( )
Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Design and Manufacture of Micro-Nano Biomedical Instruments, School of Mechanical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, China
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville 37235-1592, USA

† Yun DONG and Yongkang WANG contributed equally to this work.

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Abstract

Atomistic mechanisms of frictional energy dissipation have attracted significant attention. However, the dynamics of phonon excitation and dissipation remain elusive for many friction processes. Through systematic fast Fourier transform (FFT) analyses of the frictional signals as a silicon tip sliding over a graphite surface at different angles and velocities, we experimentally demonstrate that friction mainly excites non-equilibrium phonons at the washboard frequency and its harmonics. Using molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, we further disclose the phononic origin of structural lubrication, i.e., the drastic reduction of friction force as the contact angle between two commensurate surfaces changes. In commensurate contacting states, friction excites a large amount of phonons at the washboard frequency and many orders of its harmonics that perfectly match each other in the sliding tip and substrate, while for incommensurate cases, only limited phonons are generated at mismatched washboard frequencies and few low order harmonics in the tip and substrate.

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phononic frictionwashboard frequencystructural lubricationcommensurate and incommensurate interfaces

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Friction
Volume 11 Issue 6,
June 2023
Pages 966-976
DOI: 10.1007/s40544-022-0636-3
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DONG Y, WANG Y, DUAN Z, et al. Phononic origin of structural lubrication. Friction, 2023, 11(6): 966-976. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40544-022-0636-3

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Received: 08 January 2022
Revised: 24 February 2021
Accepted: 15 April 2022
Published: 28 July 2022
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