Friction and work function oscillatory behavior for an even and odd number of layers in polycrystalline MoS2-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Friction and work function oscillatory behavior for an even and odd number of layers in polycrystalline MoS2

Published:2018 Issue:17 Volume:10 Page:8304-8312
ISSN:2040-3364
Container-title:Nanoscale
language:en
Short-container-title:Nanoscale

Author:

Lavini Francesco¹²³⁴⁵,Calò Annalisa¹²³⁴⁶^ORCID,Gao Yang¹²³⁴,Albisetti Edoardo¹²³⁴⁷,Li Tai-De¹²³⁴,Cao Tengfei⁵⁸³⁴⁹,Li Guoqing¹⁰¹¹¹²⁴^ORCID,Cao Linyou¹⁰¹¹¹²⁴¹³,Aruta Carmela¹²³⁴¹⁴^ORCID,Riedo Elisa¹²³⁴⁵^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Advanced Science Research Center

2. City University of New York

3. New York

4. USA

5. CUNY Graduate Center

6. Tandon School of Engineering

7. Dipartimento di Fisica

8. Ph.D. Program in Physics and Chemistry

9. Department of Chemistry

10. Department of Materials Science and Engineering

11. North Carolina State University

12. Raleigh

13. Department of Physics

14. National Research Council CNR-SPIN

Abstract

We report on a new oscillatory behavior of nanoscopic friction in continuous polycrystalline MoS₂films for an odd and even number of atomic layers, related to the different in-plane polarization of crystalline grains and different capability of absorbing charged molecules.

Funder

U.S. Department of Energy

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Subject

General Materials Science

Link

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2018/NR/C8NR00238J

Reference55 articles.

1. MoS2 and WS2 Analogues of Graphene

2. Nanomechanical and Charge Transport Properties of Two-Dimensional Atomic Sheets

3. Electronic Confinement and Coherence in Patterned Epitaxial Graphene