Correlation between stick-slip frictional sliding and charge transfer

Ananthakrishna, G. ; Kumar, Jagadish (2010) Correlation between stick-slip frictional sliding and charge transfer Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, 82 (7). 075414 _1-075414 _8. ISSN 1098-0121

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Official URL: http://prb.aps.org/abstract/PRB/v82/i7/e075414

Related URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.82.075414

Abstract

A decade ago, Budakian and Putterman [Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 1000 (2000)]10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.1000 ascribed friction to the formation of bonds arising from contact charging when a gold tip of a surface force apparatus was dragged on polymethylmethacrylate surface. We propose a stick-slip model that captures the observed correlation between stick-slip events and charge transfer, and the lack of dependence of the scale factor connecting the force jumps and charge transfer on normal load. Here, stick-slip dynamics arises as a competition between the viscoelastic and plastic deformation time scales and that due to the pull speed with contact charging playing a minor role. Our model provides an alternate basis for explaining most experimental results without ascribing friction to contact charging.

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