基于分子动力学方法的多层石墨烯超滑失效机理分析

本文作者采用混合势函数(Lennard-Jones势和REBO势),基于Verlet算法动态模拟了金刚石探针(100)与多层石墨烯间的压入和滑动摩擦过程,分析了不同压深下多层石墨烯的摩擦力及平均摩擦系数变化的特点,统计了不同压深下的层间键合作用、层内断键数量以及实际原子接触面积,阐述了多层石墨烯超滑失效的机理.结果表明:压深对多层石墨烯间的超滑失效有着重要影响,探针压深增加导致的摩擦力振幅上升与悬空石墨烯压缩应变增加产生的影响非常相似;6.1(A)是石墨烯超滑失效的临界压入深度值,压深小于6.1(A)时,石墨烯有着明显的超滑特性,且摩擦力变化周期不受压深的影响,并等于石墨烯晶格常数;压深大于6.1(A)后,摩擦力变化完全失去周期性,探针在滑动中需要克服的势垒急剧上升,摩擦力显著增大,超滑明显失效.当压深为6.1(A)时,石墨烯层间开始出现键合作用,层内也出现断键现象,且随压深的增加越加剧烈,层内的断键和层间键的形成是引起石墨烯超滑失效和摩擦力突变的主要原因,而实际原子接触面积与此突变的相关性很小.     

Formation of lithium,sodium and potassium complexes with 1,3,5‐triamino‐1,3,5‐trideoxy‐cis‐inositol (taci)

Single crystals of (1,3‐diamino‐5‐azaniumyl‐1,3,5‐trideoxy‐cis‐inositol‐κ³O²,O⁴,O⁶)(1,3,5‐triamino‐1,3,5‐trideoxy‐cis‐inositol‐κ³O²,O⁴,O⁶)lithium(I) diiodide dihydrate, [Li(C₆H₁₆N₃O₃)(C₆H₁₅N₃O₃)]I₂·2H₂O or [Li(Htaci)(taci)]I₂·2H₂O (taci is 1,3,5‐triamino‐1,3,5‐trideoxy‐cis‐inositol), (I), bis(1,3,5‐triamino‐1,3,5‐trideoxy‐cis‐inositol‐κ³O²,O⁴,O⁶)sodium(I) iodide, [Na(C₆H₁₅N₃O₃)₂]I or [Na(taci)₂]I, (II), and bis(1,3,5‐triamino‐1,3,5‐trideoxy‐cis‐inositol‐κ³O²,O⁴,O⁶)potassium(I) iodide, [K(C₆H₁₅N₃O₃)₂]I or [K(taci)₂]I, (III), were grown by diffusion of MeOH into aqueous solutions of the complexes. The structures of the Na and K complexes are isotypic. In all three complexes, the taci ligands adopt a chair conformation with axial hydroxy groups, and the metal cations exhibit exclusive O‐atom coordination. The six O atoms of the resulting MO₆ unit define a centrosymmetric trigonal antiprism with approximate D_3d symmetry. The interligand O...O distances increase significantly in the order Li < Na < K. The structure of (I) exhibits a complex three‐dimensional network of R—NH₂—H...NH₂—R, R—O—H...NH₂—R and R—O—H...O(H)—H...NH₂—R hydrogen bonds. The structures of the Na and K complexes consist of a stack of layers, in which each taci ligand is bonded to three neighbours via pairwise O—H...NH₂ interactions between vicinal HO—CH—CH—NH₂ groups.     

A shuffling theorem for reflectively symmetric tilings

The author and Rohatgi recently proved a ‘shuffling theorem’ for doubly-dented hexagons. In particular, they showed that shuffling removed unit triangles along a horizontal axis in a hexagon changes the tiling number by only a simple multiplicative factor. In this paper, we consider a similar phenomenon for a symmetry class of tilings, namely, the reflectively symmetric tilings. We also prove several shuffling theorems for halved hexagons.     

Fitting Height and Character Degree Graphs

Given a group G, Γ(G) is the graph whose vertices are the primes that divide the degree of some irreducible character and two vertices p and q are joined by an edge if pq divides the degree of some irreducible character of G. By a definition of Lewis, a graph Γ has bounded Fitting height if the Fitting height of any solvable group G with Γ(G)=Γ is bounded (in terms of Γ). In this note, we prove that there exists a universal constant C such that if Γ has bounded Fitting height and Γ(G)=Γ then h(G)≤C. This solves a problem raised by Lewis. Research supported by the Spanish Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia, MTM2004-06067-C02-01 and MTM2004-04665, the FEDER and Programa Ramón y Cajal.     

Effects of thermal annealing on structural and magnetic properties of thin Pt/Cr/Co multilayers

Thermal stability of thin Pt/Cr/Co multilayers and the subsequent changes in their structural, magnetic, and magneto-optical properties are reported. We observe CoCrPt ternary alloy phase formation due to annealing at temperatures about 773 K, which is accompanied by enhancement in the coercivity value. In addition, 360° domain wall superimposed on a monodomain like background has been observed in the pristine multilayer, which changes into a multidomain upon annealing at 873 K.