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LANGMUIR
卷 27, 期 15, 页码 9387-9395出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/la201396m
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- King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) [KUS-C1-018-02]
- National Science Foundation [DMR- 0705565]
A bead-probe lateral force microscopy (LFM) technique is used to characterize the interfacial friction and adhesion properties of polymer brushes. Our measurements attempt to relate the physical structure and chemical characteristics of the brush to their properties as thin-film, tethered lubricants. Brushes are synthesized at several chain lengths and surface coverages from polymer chains of polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS), polystyrene (PS), and a poly(propylene glycol)-poly (ethylene glycol) block copolymer (PPG/PEG). At high surface coverage, PDMS brushes manifest friction coefficients (COFs) that are among the lowest recorded for a dry lubricant film (mu approximate to 0.0024) and close to I order of magnitude lower than the COF of a bare silicon surface. Brushes synthesized from higher molar mass chains exhibit higher friction forces than those created using lower molar mass polymers. Increased grafting density of chains in the brush significantly reduces the COF by creating a uniform surface of stretched chains with a decreased surface viscosity. Brushes with lower surface tension and interfacial shear stresses manifest the lowest COP. In particular, PDMS chains exhibit COFs lower than PS by a factor of 3.7 and lower than PPG/PEG by a factor of 4.7. A scaling analysis conducted on the surface coverage (sigma) in relation to the fraction (epsilon) of the friction force developing from adhesion predicts a universal relation E similar to sigma(4/3), which is supported by our experimental data.
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