Anomalous friction of supercooled glycerol on mica

Mathieu Lizée (), Baptiste Coquinot, Guilhem Mariette, Alessandro Siria and Lydéric Bocquet ()
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Mathieu Lizée: Sorbonne Université, Université de Paris
Baptiste Coquinot: Sorbonne Université, Université de Paris
Guilhem Mariette: Sorbonne Université, Université de Paris
Alessandro Siria: Sorbonne Université, Université de Paris
Lydéric Bocquet: Sorbonne Université, Université de Paris

Nature Communications, 2024, vol. 15, issue 1, 1-8

Abstract: Abstract Although friction of liquids on solid surfaces is traditionally linked to wettability, recent works have unveiled the role of the solid’s internal excitations on interfacial dissipation. In order to directly evidence such couplings, we take advantage of the considerable variation of the molecular timescales of supercooled glycerol under mild change of temperature to explore how friction depends on the liquid’s molecular dynamics. Using a dedicated tuning-fork AFM, we measure the slippage of glycerol on mica. We report a 100 fold increase of slip length upon cooling, while liquid-solid friction exhibits a linear scaling with molecular relaxation rate at high temperature. This scaling can be explained by a contribution of mica’s phonons which resonate with density fluctuations in the liquid, allowing efficient momentum transfer to mica. These results suggest that engineering phononic spectra of materials could enhance flow performance in nanofluidic channels and industrially relevant membranes.

Date: 2024
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