Modeling friction: From nanoscale to mesoscale

Abstract

The physics of sliding friction is gaining impulse from nanoscale and mesoscale experiments, simulations, and theoretical modeling. This Colloquium reviews some recent developments in modeling and in atomistic simulation of friction, covering open-ended directions, unconventional nanofrictional systems, and unsolved problems.

26 pages, 14 figures, Rev. Mod. Phys. Colloquium

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• Contact mechanics for randomly rough surfaces
• Statistical Models of Fracture
• Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy and Vortex Imaging in the Iron-Pnictide Superconductor BaFe${}_{1.8}$Co${}_{0.2}$As${}_2$
• Radial elasticity of multi-walled carbon nanotubes
• The dependence of the dry friction threshold on rupture dynamics
• Modeling the Unconventional Superconducting Properties of Expanded A${}_3$C${}_{60}$ Fullerides
• Frictional Duality Observed during Nanoparticle Sliding
• Melting and nonmelting of solid surfaces and nanosystems
• Atomistic simulations of the sliding friction of graphene flakes
• Electronic friction and liquid-flow-induced voltage in nanotubes
• Elastic contact between self-affine surfaces: Comparison of numerical stress and contact correlation functions with analytic predictions
• Static and dynamic friction in sliding colloidal monolayers
• Rotational dynamics and friction in double-walled carbon nanotubes
• Experimental observation of directional locking and dynamical ordering of colloidal monolayers driven across quasiperiodic substrates
• Triangular Mott-Hubbard Insulator Phases of Sn/Si(111) and Sn/Ge(111) Surfaces
• Hindered rolling and friction anisotropy in supported carbon nanotubes
• Dynamics and Friction in Double Walled Carbon Nanotubes
• Surface dead layer for quasiparticles near a Mott transition
• Why Are Alkali Halide Solid Surfaces Not Wetted By Their Own Melt?
• Exactly quantized dynamics of classical incommensurate sliders
• Impact of molecular structure on the lubricant squeeze-out between curved surfaces with long range elasticity
• Giant Wave-Drag Enhancement of Friction in Sliding Carbon Nanotubes
• Statics and dynamics of elastic manifolds in media with long-range correlated disorder
• Peak Effect versus Skating in High Temperature Nanofriction
• Asymmetric frictional sliding between incommensurate surfaces
• Dynamical chiral symmetry breaking in sliding nanotubes
• Optimal Energy Dissipation in Sliding Friction Simulations
• High-pressure lubricity at the meso- and nanoscale
• Solitons and exact velocity quantization of incommensurate sliders
• Atomic spin sensitive dissipation on magnetic surfaces
• Ballistic nanofriction

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• Friction of Water on Graphene and Hexagonal Boron Nitride from ab initio Methods: Very Different Slippage Despite Very Similar Interface Structures
• Superlubricity of Graphene Nanoribbons on Gold Surfaces
• Depinning and nonequilibrium dynamic phases of particle assemblies driven over random and ordered substrates: a review
• Statics and Dynamics of Skyrmions Interacting with Pinning: A Review
• Nanoserpents: Graphene Nanoribbons Motion on Two-Dimensional Hexagonal Materials
• Tunable macroscale structural superlubricity in two-layer graphene via strain engineering
• Structure change, layer sliding, and metallization in high-pressure MoS${}_2$
• Classical Discrete Time Crystals
• In situ twistronics of van der Waals heterostructures
• Tuning friction atom-by-atom in an ion-crystal simulator
• Liquid-solid slip on charged walls: dramatic impact of charge distribution
• On the velocity-strengthening behavior of dry friction
• Solid friction between soft filaments
• Negative Friction Coefficients in Superlubric Graphite-Hexagonal Boron Nitride Heterojunctions
• Observation of Aubry transition in finite atom chains via friction
• A Gaussian Treatment for the Friction Issue of Lennard-Jones Potential in Layered Materials: Application to Friction between Graphene, MoS2 and Black Phosphorus
• Dynamic Phases of Active Matter Systems with Quenched Disorder
• Observation of normal-force-independent superlubricity in mesoscopic graphite contacts
• Velocity tuning of friction with two trapped atoms
• Understanding the friction of atomically thin layered materials
• Critical length limiting super-low friction
• CDW slips and giant frictional dissipation peaks at the NbSe${}_2$ surface
• Static friction scaling of physisorbed islands: the key is in the edge
• Probing Nanofriction and Aubry-type signatures in a finite self-organized system
• Instabilities at Frictional Interfaces: Creep Patches, Nucleation and Rupture Fronts
• Stick-Slip Motion of the Wigner Solid on Liquid Helium
• Experimental observation of the Aubry transition in two-dimensional colloidal monolayers
• Static and dynamic friction of hierarchical surfaces
• Clogging and Depinning of Ballistic Active Matter Systems in Disordered Media
• Solidification and superlubricity with molecular alkane films
• Collective Directional Locking of Colloidal Monolayers on a Periodic Substrate
• Nonequilibrium Phases and Segregation for Skyrmions on Periodic Pinning Arrays
• Frictional Transition from Superlubric Islands to Pinned Monolayers
• Dynamic Regimes for Driven Colloidal Particles on a Periodic Substrate at Commensurate and Incommensurate Fillings
• Self-amplification of solid friction in interleaved assemblies
• Perspective on Reversible to Irreversible Transitions in Periodic Driven Many Body Systems and Future Directions For Classical and Quantum Systems
• Unstable slip pulses and earthquake nucleation as a non-equilibrium first-order phase transition
• Magnus-Induced Dynamics of Driven Skyrmions on a Quasi-One-Dimensional Periodic Substrate
• Electrical charging effects on the sliding friction of a model nano-confined ionic liquid
• Friction Boosted by Equilibrium Misalignment of Incommensurate Two-Dimensional Colloid Monolayers
• Ice friction at the nanoscale
• Load-velocity-temperature relationship in frictional response of microscopic contacts
• Thermal forces from a microscopic perspective
• Ab-initio friction forces on the nanoscale: A DFT study of fcc Cu(111)
• Slider Thickness Promotes Lubricity: from 2D Islands to 3D Clusters
• Pinning, Ordering, and Dynamics of Vortices in Conformal Crystal and Gradient Pinning Arrays
• Out-of-plane and in-plane actuation effects on atomic-scale friction
• Nonlinear Transport, Dynamic Ordering, and Clustering for Driven Skyrmions on Random Pinning
• Time asymmetry of the Kramers equation with nonlinear friction: fluctuation-dissipation relation and ratchet effect
• Graphene on h-BN: to align or not to align?
• Imaging high-speed friction at the nanometer scale
• Nano-friction in cavity quantum electrodynamics
• Analytic understanding and control of dynamical friction
• Friction and Nonlinear Dynamics
• Resonantly induced friction in driven nanomechanical systems
• Non-equilibrium work distribution for interacting colloidal particles under friction
• Stick-Slip Nanofriction in Trapped Cold Ion Chains
• Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Imidazolium CnMIM-BF4 Ionic Liquids using a Coarse Grained Force-Field
• Kinetic Friction of Structurally Superlubric 2D Material Interfaces
• Reversible to Irreversible Transitions in Periodically Driven Skyrmion Systems
• Orientational Ordering, Buckling, and Dynamic Transitions for Vortices Interacting with a Periodic Quasi-One Dimensional Substrate
• Current trends in the physics of nanoscale friction
• Nanoscopic friction under electrochemical control
• Structures and Diffusion of Two Dimensional Dusty Plasmas on One Dimensional Periodic Substrates
• Controlled viscosity in dense granular materials
• History-dependent friction and slow slip from time-dependent microscopic junction laws studied in a statistical framework
• Diffusible crosslinkers cause superexponential friction forces
• Induced and endogenous acoustic oscillations in granular faults
• Static friction boost in edge-driven incommensurate contacts
• Nonlinear Dynamics, Avalanches and Noise for Driven Wigner Crystals
• Vortex Dynamics, Pinning, and Magic Angles on Moiré Patterns
• Kinks and Nanofriction: Structural Phases in Few-Atom Chains
• Individual Vortex Manipulation and Stick-Slip Motion in Periodic Pinning Arrays
• First-passage time of Brownian motion with dry friction
• Chemifriction and Superlubricity: Friends or Foes?
• Velocity-driven frictional sliding: Coarsening and steady-state pulse trains
• Optomechanical many-body cooling using frustration
• Tuning friction with composite hierarchical surfaces
• Multislip Friction with a Single Ion
• Finite-temperature phase diagram and critical point of the Aubry pinned-sliding transition in a 2D monolayer
• Dynamics and Nonmonotonic Drag for Individually Driven Skyrmions
• Multiphysics model of chemical aging in frictional contacts
• Thermolubricity of Xe monolayers on graphene
• Thermolubricity and the Jarzynski equality
• Commensuration Effects on Skyrmion Hall Angle and Drag for Manipulation of Skyrmions on Two-Dimensional Periodic Substrates
• Entropy production for velocity-dependent macroscopic forces: the problem of dissipation without fluctuations
• Non-equilibrium dynamics of a confined colloidal bilayer in planar shear flow
• Single-particle level access to hydrodynamic and frictional coupling between spheres in dense colloidal suspensions
• Moiré-pattern evolution couples rotational and translational friction at crystalline interfaces
• Nanofriction and motion of topological defects in self-organized ion Coulomb crystals
• Disordering, Clustering, and Laning Transitions in Particle Systems with Dispersion in the Magnus Term
• Quantum nanofriction in trapped ion chains with a topological defect
• Frictional dynamics of viscoelastic solids driven on a rough surface
• Predicting Human Touch Sensitivity to Single Atom Substitutions in Surface Monolayers
• Anisotropic Rheology and Friction of Suspended Graphene
• Transport properties of a quasi-1D Wigner Solid on liquid helium confined in a microchannel with periodic potential
• A simple generalization of Prandtl-Tomlinson model to study nanoscale rolling friction
• Friction and Adhesion mediated by supramolecular host-guest complexes
• Atomistic mechanism of friction force independence on the normal load and other friction laws for dynamic structural superlubricity
• Pinned-to-sliding transition and structural crossovers for helically confined charges
• Size-dependent commensurability and its possible role in determining the frictional behavior of adsorbed systems
• Polaronic Contributions to Friction in a Manganite Thin Film
• Pattern Formation and Transport for Externally Driven Active Matter on Periodic Substrates
• Electric-field frictional effects in confined zwitterionic molecules
• Skyrmion Dynamics and Transverse Mobility: Skyrmion Hall Angle Reversal on 2D Periodic Substrates with dc and Biharmonic ac Drives
• Detecting Depinning and Nonequilibrium Transitions with Unsupervised Machine Learning
• Thermodynamic uncertainty relations in the presence of non-linear friction and memory
• Transition from Static to Dynamic Friction in an Array of Frictional Disks
• Future Directions for Active Matter on Ordered Substrates
• Controlling turbulent drag across electrolytes using electric fields
• Effective stick-slip parameter for structurally lubric 2D interface friction
• Collective Dynamics and Defect Generation for Wigner Crystal Ratchets
• Viscoelastic Interfaces Driven in Disordered Media and Applications to Friction
• Friction and mobility of carbon nanoparticles on a graphene sheet
• On dynamical ordering in a 2D electron crystal confined in a narrow channel geometry
• Sliding of Electron Crystal of Finite Size on the Surface of Superfluid He-4 Confined in a Microchannel
• Static kinks in chains of interacting atoms
• Superlubric-pinned transition of a two-dimensional solid dusty plasma under a periodic triangular substrate
• Noise and Thermal Depinning of Wigner Crystals
• Front propagation in lattices with on-site bistable non-degenerate potential: multiplicity, bifurcations and route to chaos
• Friction Anomalies at First-Order Transition Spinodals: 1T-TaS${}_2$
• Microscopic Friction Emulators
• Using Surface-Motions for Locomotion of Microscopic Robots in Viscous Fluids
• Influence of substrate potential shape on the dynamics of a sliding lubricant chain
• Depinning and heterogeneous dynamics of colloidal crystal layers under shear flow
• Charge density wave surface phase slips and non-contact nanofriction
• Surface phonon induced rotational dissipation for nanoscale solid-state gears
• Realizing the Frenkel-Kontorova model with Rydberg-dressed atoms
• Diffusion Properties of a Brownian Ratchet with Coulomb Friction
• Modeling Nanoribbon Peeling
• The Kibble-Zurek Scenario and Coarsening Across Nonequilibrium Phase Transitions in Driven Vortices and Skyrmions
• Accurate estimation of dynamical quantities for nonequilibrium nanoscale system
• Does Rotational Melting Make Molecular Crystal Surfaces More Slippery?
• Dynamic friction unraveled using an atomically defined model system
• Thermal effects and spontaneous frictional relaxation in atomically thin layered materials
• Non-monotonic dependence of the friction coefficient on heterogeneous stiffness
• Dynamics of quantum discommensurations in the Frenkel-Kontorova chain
• Random Matrix Ensembles in Hyperchaotic Classical Dissipative Dynamical Systems
• Soliton dynamics in a solid lubricant during sliding friction
• The induced friction on a probe moving in a nonequilibrium medium
• A Nanographene Disk Rotating a single Molecule Gear on a Cu(111) Surface
• Markov State Modeling of Sliding Friction
• Critical Peeling of Tethered Nanoribbons
• Depinning transition of self-propelled particles
• Thermal Friction Enhancement in Zwitterionic Monolayers
• Quantum "contact" friction: the contribution of kinetic friction coefficient from thermal fluctuations
• A model of friction with plastic contact nudging: Amontons-Coulomb laws, aging of static friction, and non-monotonic Stribeck curves with finite quasistatic limit
• Sliding states of a soft-colloid cluster crystal: Cluster versus single-particle hopping
• Quantum frustrated Wigner chains
• Fifty years of Schallamach waves: From rubber friction to nanoscale fracture
• Active Rheology and Anti-Commensuration Effects For Driven Probe Particles on Two Dimensional Periodic Pinning Substrates
• Fractal ground state of ion chains in periodic potentials
• A shear cell study on oral and inhalation grade lactose powders
• Energy Dissipation by Metamorphic Micro-Robots in Viscous Fluids
• Amplitude Nanofriction Spectroscopy
• A Markovian approach to the Prandtl-Tomlinson frictional model
• Brownian dynamics study of driven partially pinned solid in the presence of square array of pinning centers: Enhanced pinning close to the melting transition
• Dynamic Phases and Reentrant Hall Effect for Vortices and Skyrmions on Periodic Pinning Arrays
• Pattern Formation and Flocking for Particles Near the Jamming Transition on Resource Gradient Substrates
• Vortex Guidance and Transport in Channeled Pinning Arrays
• Superlubric-Locked Transition of Twist Grain Boundaries in 3D Crystals
• Phononic frictional losses of a particle crossing a crystal: linear-response theory
• A Markov State Modeling analysis of sliding dynamics of a 2D model
• Can Neural Networks Learn Nanoscale Friction?
• Dynamic Phases and Combing Effects for Elongated Particles Moving Over Quenched Disorder
• The velocity dependence of dry sliding friction at the nano-scale
• Prediction of Li3Fe8B8 compound with rapid one-dimensional ion diffusion channels
• State-dependent driving: A route to non-equilibrium stationary states
• Experimental testing of the Prandtl-Tomlinson model: Molecular origin of rotational friction
• Low-Temperature Friction of Suspended Graphene: Negative friction?
• Filament turnover is essential for continuous long range contractile flow in a model actomyosin cortex
• Electrotunable friction with ionic liquid lubricants: how important is the molecular structure of the ions?
• A survey of interlayer interaction models for graphene and other 2D materials