Journal
JOURNAL OF ADHESION
Volume 83, Issue 7, Pages 705-722Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/00218460701490363
Keywords
adhesion hysteresis; aqueous boundary lubrication; biolubrication; friction under water; hydration layers; slip-plane shift; surface forces; surfactant monolayers
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- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/C535421/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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We briefly review the model that correlates friction between two surfaces in adhesive contact with the loading-unloading adhesion hysteresis between them. We then examine in light of this model the observed low friction between two mica surfaces coated with a double-chained quaternary ammonium surfactant in intimate adhesive contact in water. This enables us to propose a mechanism for surfactant boundary lubrication in water that is rather different from the classic boundary lubrication in air: in this mechanism, adhesion takes place at the interface between the opposing surfactant hydrocarbon tails, whereas frictional sliding takes place at the interface between the hydrated surfactant headgroups and mica. The implications of our findings to biolubrication processes are discussed.
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