Contacts With Negative Work of “Adhesion” and Superlubricity

dc.contributor.authorPopov, Valentin L.
dc.date.accessioned2020-02-19T15:51:54Z
dc.date.available2020-02-19T15:51:54Z
dc.date.issued2020-01-22
dc.date.updated2020-01-22T08:11:48Z
dc.description.abstractVan der Waals forces between solids in vacuum are always attractive and are considered as the main source of adhesion. However, in the presence of an intermediate medium, they can also be repelling (Dzyaloshinskii et al., 1961) which means that the “work of adhesion” becomes negative. Similarly to the case of adhesion, the interaction range of these forces can be either comparable (or larger) than the minimum characteristic length scale of the contact problem or it can be negligible compared with all characteristic length scales. We call this latter case the “JKR-approximation,” as the JKR theory of adhesion (Johnson et al., 1971) is also valid in this limit. The repelling interaction can also be due to the presence (and squeezing out) of a thin fluid layer between solids as considered in Müser (2014). In the papers Popov and Hess (2018) and Heß and Popov (2019), it was shown that the contact of two oppositely charged surfaces at a constant voltage is equivalent to the adhesive contact with an effective van der Waals interaction. Similarly, the contact of the bodies with the same charge would be equivalent to repelling van der Waals forces with a negative work of adhesion. Further kinds of repelling forces may be solvation, structural, and hydration forces (Israelachvili, 2011). In the following, we speak about van der Waals forces, but they are thought as representative for a larger class of long range repelling forces. We argue that in the JKR approximation, the Hertz' solution of the contact problem with a repelling van der Waals interaction, remains practically unchanged. However, the contact area falls apart into the area of “weak (van der Waals) interaction” and “strong (rigid wall) interaction.” It is speculated that if the normal force is smaller than a critical value at which the core region of strong interaction disappears, a macroscopic superlubricity state of the contact may be observed.en
dc.description.sponsorshipDFG, 414044773, Open Access Publizieren 2019 - 2020 / Technische Universität Berlinen
dc.identifier.eissn2297-3079
dc.identifier.urihttps://depositonce.tu-berlin.de/handle/11303/10810
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.14279/depositonce-9703
dc.language.isoenen
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
dc.subject.ddc621 Angewandte Physikde
dc.subject.othernegative work of adhesionen
dc.subject.otherelectrohapticsen
dc.subject.othersuperlubricityen
dc.subject.othervan der Waals forcesen
dc.subject.otherHertzian contacten
dc.titleContacts With Negative Work of “Adhesion” and Superlubricityen
dc.typeArticleen
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.articlenumber73en
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.doi10.3389/fmech.2019.00073en
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.journaltitleFrontiers in Mechanical Engineeringen
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.originalpublishernameFrontiers Media S.A.en
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.originalpublisherplaceLausanneen
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.volume5en
tub.accessrights.dnbfreeen
tub.affiliationFak. 5 Verkehrs- und Maschinensysteme::Inst. Mechanik::FG Systemdynamik und Reibungsphysikde
tub.affiliation.facultyFak. 5 Verkehrs- und Maschinensystemede
tub.affiliation.groupFG Systemdynamik und Reibungsphysikde
tub.affiliation.instituteInst. Mechanikde
tub.publisher.universityorinstitutionTechnische Universität Berlinen

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