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External Control of Liquid Nanofilms for Switchable Friction and Adhesion
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| Coordinator |
THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
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| Coordinator Country | United Kingdom [UK] |
| Project website | http://perkin.chem.ox.ac.uk/ |
| Total cost | 1˙492˙828 € |
| EC max contribution | 1˙492˙828 € (100%) |
| Programme |
1. H2020-EU.1.1. (EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)) |
| Code Call | ERC-2015-STG |
| Funding Scheme | ERC-STG |
| Starting year | 2016 |
| Duration (year-month-day) | from 2016-04-01 to 2021-03-31 |
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| 1 | THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD | UK (OXFORD) | coordinator | 1˙492˙828.00 |
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Project objective
The overall vision of the project is to demonstrate methods for switching friction and adhesion – such as “switch off friction” or “switch on adhesion” – reversibly and with remote control. My hypothesis is that fluids confined to nanofilms between solid objects can be designed to dramatically alter their surface properties under the influence of applied fields, and so can be used to switch friction, lubrication or adhesion in a controlled and reversible way. The emphasis of the project is on creating well-defined model experiments, with high resolution in both film thickness and interaction forces, in order to reach a fundamental understanding of the new concepts and mechanisms involved. The novelty lies in both the newly-proposed mechanisms of switching friction and adhesion interactions, and the new instrumentation constructed to detect and analyse the forces. The new methodologies necessary for these pioneering experiments involve two new versions of a Surface Force Balance (SFB) providing molecular-resolution (0.1nm) control and measurement of interfacial liquid films, controlled application of electric and magnetic fields, and ultra-sensitive measurement of friction and adhesion. Notably, one of these new instruments will have macroscopic graphene electrodes for confinement of liquid nanofilms (0 – 100nm) between atomically smooth electrodes. The wide range of ‘switchable’ liquids studied will include polyelectrolytes, magnetic fluids, ionic liquids and self-assembled systems. Ultimately, this project will change the way we think about surface interactions into something we can ‘switch and control’.
Publications
| year | authors and title | journal | last update |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 |
Romain Lhermerout, Christophe Diederichs, Susan Perkin Are Ionic Liquids Good Boundary Lubricants? A Molecular Perspective published pages: 9, ISSN: 2075-4442, DOI: 10.3390/lubricants6010009 |
Lubricants 6/1 | 2019-04-18 |
| 2017 |
Matthew A. Gebbie, Alexander M. Smith, Howard A. Dobbs, Alpha A. Lee, Gregory G. Warr, Xavier Banquy, Markus Valtiner, Mark W. Rutland, Jacob N. Israelachvili, Susan Perkin, Rob Atkin Long range electrostatic forces in ionic liquids published pages: 1214-1224, ISSN: 1359-7345, DOI: 10.1039/C6CC08820A |
Chemical Communications 53/7 | 2019-04-18 |
| 2018 |
Adilson Alves de Freitas, Karina Shimizu, Alexander M. Smith, Susan Perkin, José Nuno Canongia Lopes Structure and dynamics of mica-confined films of [C 10 C 1 Pyrr][NTf 2 ] ionic liquid published pages: 193808, ISSN: 0021-9606, DOI: 10.1063/1.5007809 |
The Journal of Chemical Physics 148/19 | 2019-04-18 |
| 2018 |
Samuel W. Coles, Alexander M. Smith, Maxim V. Fedorov, Florian Hausen, Susan Perkin Interfacial structure and structural forces in mixtures of ionic liquid with a polar solvent published pages: 427-442, ISSN: 1359-6640, DOI: 10.1039/C7FD00168A |
Faraday Discussions 206 | 2019-04-18 |
| 2017 |
Alexander M. Smith, Alpha A. Lee, Susan Perkin Switching the Structural Force in Ionic Liquid-Solvent Mixtures by Varying Composition published pages: , ISSN: 0031-9007, DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.096002 |
Physical Review Letters 118/9 | 2019-04-18 |
| 2016 |
Alexander M. Smith, Alpha A. Lee, Susan Perkin The Electrostatic Screening Length in Concentrated Electrolytes Increases with Concentration published pages: 2157-2163, ISSN: 1948-7185, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.6b00867 |
The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 7/12 | 2019-04-18 |
| 2017 |
Marco Balabajew, Christian D. van Engers, Susan Perkin Contact-free calibration of an asymmetric multi-layer interferometer for the surface force balance published pages: 123903, ISSN: 0034-6748, DOI: 10.1063/1.5006056 |
Review of Scientific Instruments 88/12 | 2019-04-18 |
| 2018 |
Bruno Zappone, Weichao Zheng, Susan Perkin Multiple-beam optical interferometry of anisotropic soft materials nanoconfined with the surface force apparatus published pages: 85112, ISSN: 0034-6748, DOI: 10.1063/1.5038951 |
Review of Scientific Instruments 89/8 | 2019-04-18 |
| 2017 |
Alpha A. Lee, Carla S. Perez-Martinez, Alexander M. Smith, Susan Perkin Scaling Analysis of the Screening Length in Concentrated Electrolytes published pages: , ISSN: 0031-9007, DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.026002 |
Physical Review Letters 119/2 | 2019-04-18 |
| 2017 |
Samuel W. Coles, Maksim Mishin, Susan Perkin, Maxim V. Fedorov, Vladislav B. Ivaništšev The nanostructure of a lithium glyme solvate ionic liquid at electrified interfaces published pages: 11004-11010, ISSN: 1463-9076, DOI: 10.1039/C7CP00837F |
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 19/18 | 2019-04-18 |
| 2016 |
Alpha A. Lee, Susan Perkin Ion–Image Interactions and Phase Transition at Electrolyte–Metal Interfaces published pages: 2753-2757, ISSN: 1948-7185, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.6b01324 |
The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 7/14 | 2019-04-18 |
| 2017 |
Lucy R. Griffin, Kathryn L. Browning, Stuart M. Clarke, Alexander M. Smith, Susan Perkin, M. W. A. Skoda, Sarah E. Norman Direct measurements of ionic liquid layering at a single mica–liquid interface and in nano-films between two mica–liquid interfaces published pages: 297-304, ISSN: 1463-9076, DOI: 10.1039/C6CP05757H |
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 19/1 | 2019-04-18 |
| 2018 |
Romain Lhermerout, Susan Perkin Nanoconfined ionic liquids: Disentangling electrostatic and viscous forces published pages: , ISSN: 2469-990X, DOI: 10.1103/physrevfluids.3.014201 |
Physical Review Fluids 3/1 | 2019-04-18 |
| 2017 |
Alpha A. Lee, Carla S. Perez-Martinez, Alexander M. Smith, Susan Perkin Underscreening in concentrated electrolytes published pages: 239-259, ISSN: 1359-6640, DOI: 10.1039/C6FD00250A |
Faraday Discussions 199 | 2019-04-18 |
| 2017 |
Christian D. van Engers, Nico E. A. Cousens, Vitaliy Babenko, Jude Britton, Bruno Zappone, Nicole Grobert, Susan Perkin Direct Measurement of the Surface Energy of Graphene published pages: 3815-3821, ISSN: 1530-6984, DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b01181 |
Nano Letters 17/6 | 2019-04-18 |
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