Abstract
Friction between chemically-modified tips and surfaces has been studied with chemical force microscopy (CFM) to evaluate the effect of changing solid/liquid free energy on energy dissipation in sliding tip-surface contact. Well-controlled conditions were necessary to attain a single asperity contact in these experiments. We found that in a series of methanol- water mixtures the interfacial shear strength between CH3-terminated surfaces of the siloxane self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) was independent of the adhesion force. The shear strength value of 10.2 ± 1.0 MPa found for this interface under methanol-water media is consistent with the previous studies of similar systems under dry gas conditions. A comparison to available data on interfacial shear strengths demonstrated that siloxane monolayers were much more effective in reducing friction than various carbon coatings.
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