Title: Atomistic modelling of frictional anisotropy of palladium nanoparticles on graphene
Author(s):

	A.V. Khomenko (Sumy State University, 2 Rimsky-Korsakov St., 40007 Sumy, Ukraine; Peter Grünberg Institut-1, Forschungszentrum-Jülich, D-52425 Jülich, Germany) ,
	M.V. Zakharov (Sumy State University, 2 Rimsky-Korsakov St., 40007 Sumy, Ukraine)

This article is a continuation of our previous studies of the frictional anisotropy of metal nanoparticles on the surface of a graphene substrate for other temperature conditions. The friction force acting on palladium nanoparticles on a graphene sheet in various lateral directions is investigated using classical molecular dynamics modelling. Anisotropy is studied at high sliding speeds of nanoparticles consisting of 10000 atoms on the surface of graphene. The effect of incommensurability and short-range order of the contact surfaces of nanoparticles, as well as the graphene deformation lead to the absence of an expressed angular dependence of the friction force.

Key words: atomic force microscopy, carbon-based materials, friction, graphene, nanoparticles, tribology

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