Dependence of adhesion and friction on porosity in porous anodic alumina films

Dukhyun Choi, Sangmin Lee, Seonghan Kim, Pyungsoo Lee, Kunhong Lee, Hyunchul Park, Woonbong Hwang

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Abstract

We explore, using atomic force microscopy, adhesion and friction characteristics of porous anodic alumina (PAA) films as the porosity varies. Pore formation greatly reduces the adhesive force, by as much as 30 times, but the porosity of PAA films has little influence on its adhesion properties, showing good agreement with the relative contact area estimated by the Hertzian model and indentation theory. Frictional coefficients vary nonlinearly with the porosity of the PAA films due to intrinsic characteristics of the surface morphology of PAA films.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)870-873
Number of pages4
JournalScripta Materialia
Volume58
Issue number10
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - May 2008

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
This research was supported by Grant No. R01-2006-000-10585-0 (2006) from the Korea Science and Engineering Foundation (KOSEF) funded by the Korea government (MOST).

Keywords

  • Adhesion
  • Atomic force microscopy
  • Friction
  • Porous material

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