Abstract
The adhesion and friction between ordered and disordered self-assembled monolayers was studied using molecular dynamics. Investigations show that the disorder was introduced by randomly removing chains from a well ordered crystalline substrate. It was found that the adhesion force between the monolayers at a given separation increased monotonically with chain length at full coverage. The results show that the friction becomes insensitive to chain length, defect density and substrate with random defects.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 166103 |
| Pages (from-to) | 166103-1-166103-4 |
| Journal | Physical review letters |
| Volume | 93 |
| Issue number | 16 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Oct 15 2004 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Physics and Astronomy(all)
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Chandross, M., Webb, E. B., Stevens, M. J., Grest, G. S., & Garofalini, S. H. (2004). Systematic study of the effect of disorder on nanotribology of self-assembled monolayers. Physical review letters, 93(16), 166103-1-166103-4. [166103]. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.166103