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Adhesive Energy of Zinc Oxide and Graphite, Molecular Dynamics and Atomic Force Microscopy Study
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 December 2012
Abstract
Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations are performed to calculate the interfacial energy between zinc oxide (ZnO) and graphitic carbon for the study of solid–solid adhesion. The MD model consists of a ZnO slab and a single layer of graphitic carbon. The calculation was validated experimentally by atomic force microscopy (AFM) liftoff. A polishing process was applied to create a tip with a flat surface that was subsequently coated with a ZnO film allowing force displacement measurement on Highly Oriented Pyrolitic Graphite to validate the simulations. The MD simulation and AFM lift-off show good agreement with adhesive energies of 0.303 J/m2 and 0.261 ± 0.054 J/m2, respectively.
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