Anomalous Frictional Behaviors of Ir and Au Tips Sliding on Graphene/Ni(111) Substrate: Density Functional Theory Calculations

The atomic force microscope (AFM) provides a facilitating tool to investigate the atomic-scale friction properties of surfaces through the sliding of the scanning tip; therefore, the interaction between the tip and the surface should play an important role to determine the frictional behaviors. In t...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of physical chemistry. C 2017-10, Vol.121 (39), p.21397-21404
Hauptverfasser: Gao, Lei, Ma, Yuan, Liu, Yanmin, Song, Aisheng, Ma, Tianbao, Hu, Yuanzhong, Su, Yanjing, Qiao, Lijie
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:The atomic force microscope (AFM) provides a facilitating tool to investigate the atomic-scale friction properties of surfaces through the sliding of the scanning tip; therefore, the interaction between the tip and the surface should play an important role to determine the frictional behaviors. In this study, density functional theory (DFT) calculations have been carried out to perform the pushing down processes of a tip (10 atom Ir or Au tip) on the top, hollow, and bridge sites of the graphene/Ni(111) substrate. The calculation results indicate that the interactions between the tips and the graphene/Ni(111) substrate influence the adsorption energy remarkably, leading to the sequence of bridge < top < hollow for Ir and Au tips, which is totally different from the adsorption energy of an inert Ar atom, following the sequence of hollow < bridge < top. The strong interactions between the (Ir or Au) tip and the graphene/Ni(111) substrate will introduce novel frictional properties into the system, and an anomalous negative friction coefficient could be obtained. Further investigations show that these interactions arise from the hybridizations between the 2p z orbitals of C atoms and the 5d z 2 orbitals of the tip apex atom.
ISSN:1932-7447
1932-7455
DOI:10.1021/acs.jpcc.7b06303