Transition from static to kinetic friction in a model lubricated system

Molecularly thin confined fluids were deformed in shear faster than structural relaxations in response to shear could be accomplished, such that with increasing deformation the systems passed from the rest state to sliding. The response of these systems—two atomically smooth mica sheets separated by a fluid comprised of globularly shaped molecules [octamethylcyclotetrasiloxane]—was studied as a function of film thickness of the fluid (from 80 to 10 A, i.e, from ∼8 to ∼1 molecular dimensions), as a function of normal pressure, and as a function of deformation rate, using a modified surface forces apparatus. Whereas the linear response was always liquid-like provided that the deformation rate was sufficiently slow, a “stick-slip” transition from the rest state to sliding was observed when the deformation rate was large, provided that the oscillatory frequency sufficiently exceeded the inverse intrinsic relaxation time of the confined fluid. This transition was monotonic and reversible without hysteresis for...

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