The frictional behavior of supported graphene is known to be influenced by the physical properties and surface morphologies of the underlying substrate. However, it is unclear how a surface defect on the substrate aff...The frictional behavior of supported graphene is known to be influenced by the physical properties and surface morphologies of the underlying substrate. However, it is unclear how a surface defect on the substrate affects the friction of supported graphene,and it is even unknown how to define the defect-induced friction force in this context. Here we conduct molecular dynamics(MD) simulations to investigate the friction between a square diamond slider and a graphene sheet supported by a copper substrate with a surface cavity defect. Our results demonstrate that the defect-induced friction exhibits a nonlinear increase with cavity size, while it decreases nonlinearly with slider size. We propose that the definition of defect-induced friction can be linked to the increase in friction work over the length of the slider, and is closely correlated to the defect-induced relative change in indentation depth and the ratio of the cavity area to the contact area. These findings provide a comprehensive evaluation of the impact of a substrate cavity defect on the friction of supported graphene and offer insights that may have broader implications for understanding defect-induced friction in other two-dimensional materials.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.12132008)the Key Research Project of Zhejiang Laboratory(Grant No.2021PE0AC02)。
文摘The frictional behavior of supported graphene is known to be influenced by the physical properties and surface morphologies of the underlying substrate. However, it is unclear how a surface defect on the substrate affects the friction of supported graphene,and it is even unknown how to define the defect-induced friction force in this context. Here we conduct molecular dynamics(MD) simulations to investigate the friction between a square diamond slider and a graphene sheet supported by a copper substrate with a surface cavity defect. Our results demonstrate that the defect-induced friction exhibits a nonlinear increase with cavity size, while it decreases nonlinearly with slider size. We propose that the definition of defect-induced friction can be linked to the increase in friction work over the length of the slider, and is closely correlated to the defect-induced relative change in indentation depth and the ratio of the cavity area to the contact area. These findings provide a comprehensive evaluation of the impact of a substrate cavity defect on the friction of supported graphene and offer insights that may have broader implications for understanding defect-induced friction in other two-dimensional materials.
