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  • 1Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA) and DEMOCRITOS, Via Beirut 2-4, I-34014 Trieste, Italy.

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High-temperature sliding nanofriction shows opposite behaviors: friction drops during ploughing due to melting, but rises during wearless sliding. These findings offer new insights into nanoscale friction near melting points.

Area of Science:

  • Materials Science
  • Tribology
  • Nanotechnology

Background:

  • The behavior of nanofriction at temperatures approaching the substrate melting point (TM) remains largely unexplored.
  • Understanding high-temperature tribological phenomena is crucial for advanced material applications.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the physics of sliding nanofriction at high temperatures near the substrate melting point.
  • To reveal distinct frictional behaviors under different sliding conditions (ploughing vs. grazing).

Main Methods:

  • Conducting simulations of hard tips sliding on a prototype non-melting surface, NaCl(100).
  • Analyzing microscopic mechanisms responsible for observed frictional changes.

Main Results:

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  • Observed a significant drop in friction for deep ploughing and wear as temperature approached TM.
  • Observed a contrary rise in friction for grazing, wearless sliding near TM.
  • Explained the frictional drop by 'skating' on a local liquid cloud and the rise by substrate surface properties.

Conclusions:

  • Two distinct and opposite nanofriction phenomena occur near the melting point: a drop during ploughing and a rise during grazing.
  • These phenomena are attributed to local melting ('skating') and substrate surface dynamics, respectively.
  • The findings are expected to be generalizable to other materials, including metals like Pb, Al, and Au(111).