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Thermal Activation of Dry Sliding Friction at The Nano-scale

. Molecular dynamic (MD) simulations are applied to investigate the dependency of the kinetic friction coefficient on the temperature at the nano-scale. The system is comprised of an aluminum spherical particle consisting of 32000 atoms in an FCC lattice sliding on a stack of several layers of graphene, and the simulations have done using LAMMPS. The interaction potential is charge-optimized many-body (COMB3) potential and a Langevin thermostat keep the system at a nearly constant temperature. With an assumption of linear viscous friction, F fr = -  , the kinetic friction coefficient  is derived and plotted at different temperatures in the interval of T  [1, 600] K. As a result, by increasing temperature, the kinetic friction coefficient is decreased. Consequently, while the friction is assumed as a linear viscous model, the results are similar to the thermal activation in atomic-scale friction. That is, (1) by increasing sliding velocity friction force will be increased and (2) by increasing temperature, kinetic friction coefficient decreases.