DOE PAGES title logo U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Title: Isotope- and Thickness-Dependent Friction of Water Layers Intercalated Between Graphene and Mica

Abstract

The lubricating properties of water have been discussed extensively for millennia. Water films can exhibit wearless high friction in the form of cold ice, or act as lubricants in skating and skiing when a liquid. At the fundamental level, friction is the result of a balance between the rate of energy generation by phonon excitation during sliding and drainage of the energy from the interface by coupling with bulk atoms. Using atomic force microscopy, we found that when H2O intercalates between graphene and mica, it increases the friction between the tip and the substrate, dependent on the thickness of the water and graphene layers, while the magnitude of the increase in friction was reduced by D2O intercalation. With the help of first-principles density functional theory calculations, we explain this unexpected behavior by the increased spectral range of the vibration modes of graphene caused by water, and by better overlap of the graphene vibration modes with mica phonons, which favors more efficient energy dissipation. Finally, the larger increase in friction with H2O versus D2O shows that the high-frequency vibration modes of the water molecules play a very important role in the transfer of the vibrational energy of the graphene to the phononmore » bath of the substrate.« less

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [3];  [4];  [2];  [3]
  1. Center for Nanomaterials and Chemical Reactions, Daejeon (South Korea)
  2. Korea Advanced Inst. of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon (South Korea)
  3. Center for Nanomaterials and Chemical Reactions, Daejeon (South Korea); Korea Advanced Inst. of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon (South Korea)
  4. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
OSTI Identifier:
1599778
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-05CH11231
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Tribology Letters
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 66; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 1023-8883
Publisher:
Springer
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; phonon mode; excitation and transfer; water molecules; nanoscale friction

Citation Formats

Lee, Hyunsoo, Ko, Jae-Hyeon, Song, Hee Chan, Salmeron, Miquel, Kim, Yong-Hyun, and Park, Jeong Young. Isotope- and Thickness-Dependent Friction of Water Layers Intercalated Between Graphene and Mica. United States: N. p., 2018. Web. doi:10.1007/s11249-018-0984-3.
Lee, Hyunsoo, Ko, Jae-Hyeon, Song, Hee Chan, Salmeron, Miquel, Kim, Yong-Hyun, & Park, Jeong Young. Isotope- and Thickness-Dependent Friction of Water Layers Intercalated Between Graphene and Mica. United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11249-018-0984-3
Lee, Hyunsoo, Ko, Jae-Hyeon, Song, Hee Chan, Salmeron, Miquel, Kim, Yong-Hyun, and Park, Jeong Young. Thu . "Isotope- and Thickness-Dependent Friction of Water Layers Intercalated Between Graphene and Mica". United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11249-018-0984-3. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1599778.
@article{osti_1599778,
title = {Isotope- and Thickness-Dependent Friction of Water Layers Intercalated Between Graphene and Mica},
author = {Lee, Hyunsoo and Ko, Jae-Hyeon and Song, Hee Chan and Salmeron, Miquel and Kim, Yong-Hyun and Park, Jeong Young},
abstractNote = {The lubricating properties of water have been discussed extensively for millennia. Water films can exhibit wearless high friction in the form of cold ice, or act as lubricants in skating and skiing when a liquid. At the fundamental level, friction is the result of a balance between the rate of energy generation by phonon excitation during sliding and drainage of the energy from the interface by coupling with bulk atoms. Using atomic force microscopy, we found that when H2O intercalates between graphene and mica, it increases the friction between the tip and the substrate, dependent on the thickness of the water and graphene layers, while the magnitude of the increase in friction was reduced by D2O intercalation. With the help of first-principles density functional theory calculations, we explain this unexpected behavior by the increased spectral range of the vibration modes of graphene caused by water, and by better overlap of the graphene vibration modes with mica phonons, which favors more efficient energy dissipation. Finally, the larger increase in friction with H2O versus D2O shows that the high-frequency vibration modes of the water molecules play a very important role in the transfer of the vibrational energy of the graphene to the phonon bath of the substrate.},
doi = {10.1007/s11249-018-0984-3},
journal = {Tribology Letters},
number = 1,
volume = 66,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Jan 25 00:00:00 EST 2018},
month = {Thu Jan 25 00:00:00 EST 2018}
}

Journal Article:
Free Publicly Available Full Text
Publisher's Version of Record

Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 20 works
Citation information provided by
Web of Science

Save / Share:

Works referenced in this record:

Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple
journal, October 1996

  • Perdew, John P.; Burke, Kieron; Ernzerhof, Matthias
  • Physical Review Letters, Vol. 77, Issue 18, p. 3865-3868
  • DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.77.3865

Raman spectroscopy of graphene and graphite: Disorder, electron–phonon coupling, doping and nonadiabatic effects
journal, July 2007


Nanophase Separation in Monomolecularly Thin Water–Ethanol Films Controlled by Graphene
journal, January 2015

  • Severin, N.; Gienger, J.; Scenev, V.
  • Nano Letters, Vol. 15, Issue 2
  • DOI: 10.1021/nl5042484

Calibration of frictional forces in atomic force microscopy
journal, September 1996

  • Ogletree, D. F.; Carpick, R. W.; Salmeron, M.
  • Review of Scientific Instruments, Vol. 67, Issue 9
  • DOI: 10.1063/1.1147411

Projector augmented-wave method
journal, December 1994


Raman spectroscopy and imaging of graphene
journal, October 2008


Nanoscale Friction Varied by Isotopic Shifting of Surface Vibrational Frequencies
journal, November 2007


From ultrasoft pseudopotentials to the projector augmented-wave method
journal, January 1999


Two Dimensional Ice Adsorbed on Mica Surface
journal, April 1997


Tuning the Graphene Work Function by Electric Field Effect
journal, October 2009

  • Yu, Young-Jun; Zhao, Yue; Ryu, Sunmin
  • Nano Letters, Vol. 9, Issue 10, p. 3430-3434
  • DOI: 10.1021/nl901572a

Fundamental Aspects of Energy Dissipation in Friction
journal, September 2013

  • Park, Jeong Young; Salmeron, Miquel
  • Chemical Reviews, Vol. 114, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1021/cr200431y

Water-Gated Charge Doping of Graphene Induced by Mica Substrates
journal, January 2012

  • Shim, Jihye; Lui, Chun Hung; Ko, Taeg Yeoung
  • Nano Letters, Vol. 12, Issue 2
  • DOI: 10.1021/nl2034317

Molecular dynamics description of a layer of water molecules on a hydrophobic surface
journal, August 2002

  • Gordillo, M. C.; Martı́, J.
  • The Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 117, Issue 7
  • DOI: 10.1063/1.1495843

Honeycomb Carbon: A Review of Graphene
journal, January 2010

  • Allen, Matthew J.; Tung, Vincent C.; Kaner, Richard B.
  • Chemical Reviews, Vol. 110, Issue 1, p. 132-145
  • DOI: 10.1021/cr900070d

Electric Field Effect Tuning of Electron-Phonon Coupling in Graphene
journal, April 2007


Perspectives on Carbon Nanotubes and Graphene Raman Spectroscopy
journal, March 2010

  • Dresselhaus, Mildred S.; Jorio, Ado; Hofmann, Mario
  • Nano Letters, Vol. 10, Issue 3
  • DOI: 10.1021/nl904286r

Two-Dimensional Water Diffusion at a Graphene–Silica Interface
journal, April 2014

  • Lee, DaeEung; Ahn, Gwanghyun; Ryu, Sunmin
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 136, Issue 18
  • DOI: 10.1021/ja4121988

Two-Dimensional Material Confined Water
journal, December 2014

  • Li, Qiang; Song, Jie; Besenbacher, Flemming
  • Accounts of Chemical Research, Vol. 48, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1021/ar500306w

Fluorination of Graphene Enhances Friction Due to Increased Corrugation
journal, August 2014

  • Li, Qunyang; Liu, Xin-Z.; Kim, Sang-Pil
  • Nano Letters, Vol. 14, Issue 9
  • DOI: 10.1021/nl502147t

Raman spectroscopy in graphene
journal, April 2009


Friction Anisotropy-Driven Domain Imaging on Exfoliated Monolayer Graphene
journal, June 2011


Thermal stability studies of CVD-grown graphene nanoribbons: Defect annealing and loop formation
journal, February 2009


Friction and Dissipation in Epitaxial Graphene Films
journal, February 2009


Friction of ice measured using lateral force microscopy
journal, March 2000


Experimental observation of the quantum Hall effect and Berry's phase in graphene
journal, November 2005

  • Zhang, Yuanbo; Tan, Yan-Wen; Stormer, Horst L.
  • Nature, Vol. 438, Issue 7065, p. 201-204
  • DOI: 10.1038/nature04235

First-Principles Determination of the Soft Mode in Cubic ZrO 2
journal, May 1997


Probing the Intrinsic Properties of Exfoliated Graphene: Raman Spectroscopy of Free-Standing Monolayers
journal, January 2009

  • Berciaud, Stéphane; Ryu, Sunmin; Brus, Louis E.
  • Nano Letters, Vol. 9, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1021/nl8031444

Two Dimensional Epitaxial Water Adlayer on Mica with Graphene Coating: An ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Study
journal, August 2012

  • Li, Hui; Zeng, Xiao Cheng
  • Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, Vol. 8, Issue 9
  • DOI: 10.1021/ct300476f

Enhanced Nanoscale Friction on Fluorinated Graphene
journal, February 2012

  • Kwon, Sangku; Ko, Jae-Hyeon; Jeon, Ki-Joon
  • Nano Letters, Vol. 12, Issue 12
  • DOI: 10.1021/nl204019k

Enhancement of Friction by Water Intercalated between Graphene and Mica
journal, July 2017

  • Lee, Hyunsoo; Ko, Jae-Hyeon; Choi, Jin Sik
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, Vol. 8, Issue 15
  • DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.7b01377

Electronic Control of Friction in Silicon pn Junctions
journal, July 2006


Evidence of Stranski–Krastanov growth at the initial stage of atmospheric water condensation
journal, September 2014

  • Song, Jie; Li, Qiang; Wang, Xiaofeng
  • Nature Communications, Vol. 5, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5837

Reversible Dewetting of a Molecularly Thin Fluid Water Film in a Soft Graphene–Mica Slit Pore
journal, January 2012

  • Severin, Nikolai; Lange, Philipp; Sokolov, Igor M.
  • Nano Letters, Vol. 12, Issue 2
  • DOI: 10.1021/nl2037358

Efficient iterative schemes for ab initio total-energy calculations using a plane-wave basis set
journal, October 1996


Imaging the Condensation and Evaporation of Molecularly Thin Films of Water with Nanometer Resolution
journal, April 1995


Physics of ice friction
journal, April 2010

  • Kietzig, Anne-Marie; Hatzikiriakos, Savvas G.; Englezos, Peter
  • Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 107, Issue 8
  • DOI: 10.1063/1.3340792

Between Scylla and Charybdis: Hydrophobic Graphene-Guided Water Diffusion on Hydrophilic Substrates
journal, July 2013

  • Kim, Jin-Soo; Choi, Jin Sik; Lee, Mi Jung
  • Scientific Reports, Vol. 3, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1038/srep02309

Frictional Characteristics of Atomically Thin Sheets
journal, April 2010


Angle-resolved ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy of the unoccupied band structure of graphite
journal, December 1985


Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Study and Nanomanipulation of Graphene-Coated Water on Mica
journal, May 2012

  • He, Kevin T.; Wood, Joshua D.; Doidge, Gregory P.
  • Nano Letters, Vol. 12, Issue 6
  • DOI: 10.1021/nl202613t

Graphene Visualizes the First Water Adlayers on Mica at Ambient Conditions
journal, September 2010


Atomic roughness enhanced friction on hydrogenated graphene
journal, August 2013


Semiempirical GGA-type density functional constructed with a long-range dispersion correction
journal, January 2006

  • Grimme, Stefan
  • Journal of Computational Chemistry, Vol. 27, Issue 15, p. 1787-1799
  • DOI: 10.1002/jcc.20495

Breakdown of the adiabatic Born–Oppenheimer approximation in graphene
journal, February 2007

  • Pisana, Simone; Lazzeri, Michele; Casiraghi, Cinzia
  • Nature Materials, Vol. 6, Issue 3
  • DOI: 10.1038/nmat1846

The rise of graphene
journal, March 2007

  • Geim, A. K.; Novoselov, K. S.
  • Nature Materials, Vol. 6, Issue 3, p. 183-191
  • DOI: 10.1038/nmat1849

Suppression of electronic friction on Nb films in the superconducting state
journal, January 2011

  • Kisiel, Marcin; Gnecco, Enrico; Gysin, Urs
  • Nature Materials, Vol. 10, Issue 2
  • DOI: 10.1038/nmat2936

Raman Spectrum of Graphene and Graphene Layers
journal, October 2006


An improved wedge calibration method for lateral force in atomic force microscopy
journal, July 2003

  • Varenberg, M.; Etsion, I.; Halperin, G.
  • Review of Scientific Instruments, Vol. 74, Issue 7
  • DOI: 10.1063/1.1584082

Nanotribological Properties of Fluorinated, Hydrogenated, and Oxidized Graphenes
journal, January 2013


Quantum Differences between Heavy and Light Water
journal, August 2008


First-principles calculations of the ferroelastic transition between rutile-type and CaCl 2 -type SiO 2 at high pressures
journal, October 2008


A Route toward Digital Manipulation of Water Nanodroplets on Surfaces
journal, March 2014

  • Cheng, Meng; Wang, Duoming; Sun, Zhaoru
  • ACS Nano, Vol. 8, Issue 4
  • DOI: 10.1021/nn500873q

Works referencing / citing this record:

Height determination of single-layer graphene on mica at controlled humidity using atomic force microscopy
journal, October 2019

  • Lee, Hyunsoo; Park, Jeong Young
  • Review of Scientific Instruments, Vol. 90, Issue 10
  • DOI: 10.1063/1.5098483

Thickness and Structure of Adsorbed Water Layer and Effects on Adhesion and Friction at Nanoasperity Contact
journal, August 2019


Tuning the Friction of Graphene on Mica by Alcohol Intercalation
journal, March 2019