The Adsorption of Sodium Octanoate and OctanoicAcid at the Air/Solution Interface

Surface tension measurements on solutions of octanoic acid in water at 2Q-OC are recorded. Data are also given on the variation of surface tension of octanoic acid solutions with pH at 20oc at ionic strength 0.01. The effect of temperature on the surface tension of solutions in 0.1 N NaOH and HCl was also studied. The temperature effects were used to calculate the heats of adsorption of the unionised and ionised fatty acid, and these heat calculations are used to test theories of the ionic double layer. The effect of temperature on the equation of state of the monolayers is compared with the theory of Davie

Strain-rate sensitivity of hardness of nanocrystalline Ni75at.%Al25at.% alloy film

Room-temperature indentation experiments carried out on nanocrystalline Ni75at.%Al25at.% alloy films with a range of grain sizes revealed that the strain-rate sensitivity of hardness is nearly zero and that the hardness increases as grain size decreases. The strain-rate insensitivity of hardness indicates that the room-temperature strength of these alloy films is dominated by an athermal, strain-rate-insensitive component. The hardness of the films was found to be in the range of 2.4 to 3.3 GPa, depending on grain size.published_or_final_versio

Plasticity in nanoscale friction: Static and dynamic

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Simultaneous current-, force- and work function measurement with atomic resolution

The local work function of a surface determines the spatial decay of the charge density at the Fermi level normal to the surface. Here, we present a method that enables simultaneous measurements of local work function and tip-sample forces. A combined dynamic scanning tunneling microscope and atomic force microscope is used to measure the tunneling current between an oscillating tip and the sample in real time as a function of the cantilever's deflection. Atomically resolved work function measurements on a silicon (111)-($7\times 7$) surface are presented and related to concurrently recorded tunneling current- and force- measurements.Comment: 8 pages, 4 figures, submitted to Applied Physics Letter

Wide dynamic range 2-D nanoindentation: Friction and partial slip at contacts

A new nanomechanical testing system is described. It provides the same force controlled displacement sensing capability as nanoindentation, but now with two completely separated orthogonal axes. Load modulation enables direct determination of contact area and stiffness, both lateral and vertical, along with energy losses from the phase shifts. Two features in particular, wide dynamic ranges of several orders of magnitude of stiffness and a very high degree of mechanical separation (low crosstalk) between the axes, distinguish the technique from AFM. AFM is one of the few techniques to date to investigate tribological single asperity contacts but its mechanical limitations make it difficult to discern the underlying mechanisms. With this new technique, the evolution of a contact under 2-D stresses from deformation-free atomistic scale to initial plasticity along with the associated changes in geometry, can be monitored. Results will be presented showing that unlike in elastic contacts, Mindlin partial slip does not occur immediately under lateral stress in plastically deformed contacts. The evolution of contact area in the initial stages of sliding in the presence of plastic flow will be described, and resembles the predictions of classical Tabor and Johnson models. It will be shown that energy dissipation measured from phase shift of a modulating signal is largely due to interfacial friction rather than volumetric deformation. Prospects for further studies using both shear and normal loading will be discussed