Key Issues of Nanotribology for Successful Nanofabrication-From Basis to C60 Molecular Bearings

• Sasaki Naruo

  Department of Applied Physics, Faculty of Engineering, Seikei University Precursory Research for Embryonic Science and Technology (PRESTO), Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)

• Miura Kouji

  Department of Physics, Aichi University of Education

Bibliographic Information

Other Title

• Key Issues of Nanotribology for Successful Nanofabrication – From Basis to C₆₀ Molecular Bearings

Abstract

We briefly review the key issues of nanotribology, particularly the mechanism of friction on graphite surface, i.e., atomic friction, flake friction, and C₆₀ molecular bearings. For the atomic and flake frictions, frictional force maps are compared between simulations and experiments, which can be explained by stick-slip motion of the tip apex atom and flake. For C₆₀ molecular bearings, a novel frictional mechanism realized in the graphite/C₆₀^mono/graphite system, is reported. In this system, static frictional forces have a finite value but denote that dynamical frictional forces are zero. In order to explain the mechanism, “step rotation model” of a C₆₀ molecule is proposed by considering the effect of thermal activation, based on the concept of “single-molecular bearings.” It should be emphasized that the graphite/C₆₀^mono/graphite system is the smallest bearing in the world which has a tremendous potential for the realization of nano- and micro-machines, and has opened a new field of molecular bearings.

Journal

• Japanese Journal of Applied Physics

  Japanese Journal of Applied Physics 43 (7B), 4486-4491, 2004

  The Japan Society of Applied Physics

Keywords

• C<SUB>60</SUB>
• molecular bearing
• superlubrication
• graphite
• flake
• atomic-force microscopy
• friction
• nanotribology
• nanomachine

Details

• CRID: 1390001206266404992
• NII Article ID: 10013431081
• NII Article ID: 210000055945
• NII Article ID: 130004532487
• NII Book ID: AA10457675
• DOI: 10.1143/jjap.43.4486
• ISSN: 13474065
• ISSN: 00214922
• ISSN: http://id.crossref.org/issn/00214922
• NDL BIB ID: 7028946
• Web Site: http://id.ndl.go.jp/bib/7028946
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• Web Site: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1143/JJAP.43.4486
• Web Site: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1143/JJAP.43.4486/pdf
• Text Lang: en
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