TY - JOUR A1 - Reichelt, Manuel A1 - Cappella, Brunero T1 - Atomic force microscope study of friction at the submicron-scale during tribotests with self-mated steel N2 - Friction at the microscale during reciprocal sliding tribotests was studied for the first time with self-mated steel (100Cr6/AISI 52100) taking advantage of an atomic force microscope (AFM). To this aim, microsized steel particles were glued to the AFM-cantilever and employed as colloidal tips to perform tribotests on a steel disc. The torsion of the cantilever, which correlates with the friction force, was measured during the tests. Few tests with the same load did not yield any wear and show that the load and adhesion contributions to friction stay constant when the shape of the test particle does not change. Most of the presented tribotests engendered wear. For those tests, the increase of friction during the tribotests was attributed to the emerging plowing contribution. Furthermore, analysis of both torsion and local slope gives information on the creation of wear particles and their influence on friction. KW - Friction KW - Microtribology KW - Sliding KW - Wear PY - 2022 DO - https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4054251 VL - 144 IS - 10 SP - 1 EP - 9 PB - ASME AN - OPUS4-54839 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Cappella, Brunero A1 - Spaltmann, Dirk A1 - Gee, M. T1 - Editorial: Tribology and Atomic Force Microscopy - Towards Single Asperity Contact N2 - The concept behind this Research Topic (RT) was to collect works, in which Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) techniques are employed to study tribological phenomena and to push the resolution of measurements towards single asperity contact. Thanks to the direct determination of sample height with sub-nanometer resolution and the possibility of measuring local friction, AFM can be employed after a tribotest to detect topography and friction changes at the nanometer scale. Recently, efforts are being expended to use AFM cantilevers as tribometers, i.e., as probes altering the volume of suitable samples, thereby measuring tip and/or sample wear and friction at the nano/microscale. Thus, single asperity contact, friction, and wear can be investigated. Since friction and wear at the macroscale are the result of asperities interactions, such experiments are of great importance for better understanding of tribological processes. KW - Nanotribology KW - Friction KW - Wear KW - Single asperity KW - AFM PY - 2022 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-571037 DO - https://doi.org/10.3389/fmech.2022.853934 SN - 2297-3079 VL - 8 SP - 1 EP - 2 PB - Frontiers Media CY - Lausanne AN - OPUS4-57103 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Cappella, Brunero A1 - Reichelt, Manuel T1 - Origin of lognormal distribution of wear coefficient values N2 - Wear test results exhibit often large scattering. Hence, the study of spreading of experimental results requires big datasets. In various studies, wear coefficients were found to have lognormal distributions. Therefore, it was supposed that the wear coefficient is affected by two normally distributed variables, which combine through a product. In the present study, we demonstrate that a lognormal distribution may arise from a nonconstant wear coefficient, too, i.e., when a system does not follow Archard’s law. KW - Wear KW - Archard's law KW - Statistical distributions KW - Spreading PY - 2021 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.triboint.2021.107207 SN - 0301-679X VL - 164 PB - Elsevier Ltd. AN - OPUS4-53100 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Reichelt, Manuel A1 - Cappella, Brunero T1 - Large scale multi-parameter analysis of wear of self-mated 100Cr6 steel - A study of the validity of Archard's law N2 - Considerable scattering of experimental wear results affects seriously the evaluation of repeatability and reproducibility of tribological measurements and hampers detecting, studying, and verifying tribological laws. An accurate characterization of the statistics of results, the detection of the influence of operating parameters, and the verification of equations describing tribological phenomena can be achieved only through the analysis of large datasets with wide variation of parameters. Taking advantage of more than 400 experiments performed with the same material pairing under the same conditions on four different tribometers, the repeatability and reproducibility of volumetric wear measurements has been evaluated using Welch's test. By testing Archard's law over seven orders of magnitude of sFN, it was found that this law is not universally valid and that, under certain conditions, the wear coefficient depends on sFN itself. KW - Wear KW - Archard's law KW - 100Cr6 steel KW - Scattering PY - 2021 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.triboint.2021.106945 VL - 159 SP - 6945 PB - Elsevier Ltd. AN - OPUS4-52244 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Reichelt, Manuel A1 - Cappella, Brunero T1 - Micro- and nanowear of self-mated steel generated and studied with an AFM at the single asperity level N2 - We show for the first time tribotests performed with self-mated 100Cr6 steel, taking advantage of an AFM, employed as a tribometer for the tribotests as well as for the inspection of wear of both tribopartners. Emphasis is put on the morphology of the scars, on wear particles, and on wear of the “colloidal” particles glued on the AFM cantilever. Measurements demonstrate the possibility of characterizing single asperity events leading to very small wear. We highlight several phenomena, which are elementary key constituents of tribological processes. Such phenomena, probably occurring also at the macroscale, can be detected, identified, and characterized with high spatial and time resolution only at the nanoscale, thus giving insight into conditions and causes of their emergence. KW - Nanowear KW - Atomic force microscope KW - 100Cr6 (AISI 52100) steel KW - Wear particles KW - Single asperity contact KW - Particle transfer KW - Zero wear PY - 2021 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-531389 DO - https://doi.org/10.3389/fmech.2021.722434 SN - 2297-3079 VL - 7 SP - 1 EP - 16 PB - Frontiers Media CY - Lausanne AN - OPUS4-53138 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Friedrich, Sebastian A1 - Cappella, Brunero T1 - Friction and mechanical properties of AFM-scan-induced ripples in polymer films N2 - In the present paper, friction and mechanical properties of AFM-Scan-Induced ripple structures on films of polystyrene and poly-n-(butyl methacrylate) are investigated. Force volume measurements allow a quantitative analysis of the elastic moduli with nanometer resolution, showing a contrast in mechanical response between bundles and troughs. Additionally, analysis of the lateral cantilever deflection shows a clear correlation between friction and the sample topography. Those results support the theory of crack propagation and the formation of voids as a mechanism responsible for the formation of ripples. This paper also shows the limits of the presented measuring methods for soft, compliant, and small structures. KW - AFM KW - Polymer KW - Ripples KW - Mechanical properties KW - Friction PY - 2021 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-532772 DO - https://doi.org/10.3389/fmech.2021.672898 SN - 2297-3079 VL - 7 SP - 1 EP - 8 PB - Frontiers Media CY - Lausanne AN - OPUS4-53277 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Pisonero, J. A1 - Traub, Heike A1 - Cappella, Brunero A1 - Álvarez-Llamas, C. A1 - Méndez, A. A1 - Richter, Silke A1 - Ruiz Encinar, J. A1 - Costa-Fernandez, J. M. A1 - Bordel, N. T1 - Exploring quantitative cellular biomaging and assessment of CdSe/ZnS quantum dots cellular uptake in single cells, using ns-LA-ICP-SFMS N2 - High spatially resolved quantitative bioimaging of CdSe/ZnS Quantum Dots uptake in two kinds of cells is investigated combining laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry and the spatially resolved analysis of dried pL-droplets from a solution with a known concentration of Quantum Dots. Single cells and dried pL-droplets are morphologically characterized by Atomic Force Microscopy. A number concentration of CdSe/ZnS QDs between 3.5 104 and 48 104 is estimated to be uptaken by several selected single cells, after being incubated in the presence of a QDs suspension added to a standard cell culture medium. Mono-elemental bioimaging at subcellular resolution seems to show a higher number concentration of the CdSe/ZnS QDs in the cytosol around the cell nucleus. KW - LA-ICP-SFMS KW - Fast single pulse response KW - Quantitative bioimaging KW - Cellular uptake KW - HT22 KW - HeLa KW - Single cell KW - pL-droplets KW - CdSe/ZnS quantum Dots KW - AFM PY - 2021 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.talanta.2021.122162 SN - 0039-9140 VL - 227 SP - 122162 PB - Elsevier B.V. AN - OPUS4-52121 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Fahrbach, M. A1 - Friedrich, Sebastian A1 - Behle, H. A1 - Xu, Min A1 - Cappella, Brunero A1 - Brand, U. A1 - Peiner, E. T1 - Customized piezoresistive microprobes for combined imaging of topography and mechanical properties N2 - Customized piezoresistive cantilever microprobes with a deflection range of 120 μm and silicon tips of 100 μm height were operated in a Cypher AFM showing their functionality for measuring topography together with stiffness, adhesion, and viscoelastic properties of thin films. KW - Cantilever microprobe KW - Piezoresistive KW - Atomic force microscopy KW - Force-distance curves KW - Contact resonance KW - Lubricants PY - 2021 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-524225 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.measen.2021.100042 VL - 15 SP - 100042 PB - Elsevier Ltd. AN - OPUS4-52422 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Fahrbach, M. A1 - Friedrich, Sebastian A1 - Cappella, Brunero A1 - Peiner, Erwin T1 - Calibrating a high-speed contact-resonance profilometer N2 - A European EMPIR project, which aims to use large-scale piezoresistive microprobes for contact resonance applications, a well-established measurement mode of atomic force microscopes (AFMs), is being funded. As the probes used in this project are much larger in size than typical AFM probes some of the simplifications and assumptions made for AFM probes are not applicable. This study presents a guide on how to systematically create a model that replicates the dynamic behavior of microprobes, including air damping, nonlinear sensitivities, and frequency dependencies. The model is then verified by analyzing a series of measurements. KW - Piezoresistive cantilever KW - AFM KW - contact resonance PY - 2020 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-509899 DO - https://doi.org/10.5194/jsss-9-179-2020 VL - 9 SP - 179 EP - 187 PB - Copernicus Publications AN - OPUS4-50989 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Reichelt, Manuel A1 - Cappella, Brunero T1 - Comparative analysis of error sources in the determination of wear volumes of oscillating ball-on-plane tests N2 - The accurate determination of wear volumes is a prerequisite for the study of numerous tribological phenomena. Wear volumes can be measured with different techniques or else be calculated starting from some quantities measured from the wear scar. Advantages and drawbacks of the measuring techniques are shown by means of wear scars and calottes resulting from ball-on-plane tests with 100Cr6 specimens. When measuring wear volumes, white light interferometry results to be one of the most suitable techniques. When wear volumes are calculated, errors result mainly from two sources: (1) the arbitrary choice of one or few line profiles for the determination of the width and of the planimetric wear, and (2) approximations in the calculation, which are even necessary when values of the wear volumes of the single tribological partners and not only the total volume are of interest. The effect of both error sources on the accuracy in the determination of wear volumes is characterized and elucidated by examples. It is found that errors due to approximations are negligible when compared to errors due to the arbitrary choice of one line profile. KW - Error sources analysis KW - White light interferometry KW - Statistical analysis KW - AFM KW - Wear KW - Oscillating ball-on-disc test PY - 2020 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-508407 DO - https://doi.org/10.3389/fmech.2020.00025 VL - 6 SP - Article 25 AN - OPUS4-50840 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Reichelt, Manuel A1 - Cappella, Brunero T1 - Influence of relative humidity on wear of self-mated 100 Cr6 steel N2 - The influence of relative humidity on friction and wear is subject of several studies in the last decades. A comprehensive understanding of physical and chemical phenomena affecting the tribology is hampered by the lack of reproducible experimental results, by the large number of variables, and by several difficulties in the detection of tribochemical processes and products. In the present work, we analyze the wear coefficient and the wear volumes of 686 unlubricated tests performed on different oscillating tribometers with 100Cr6 balls on 100Cr6 planes at different relative humidity. Aim of this work is to assess the repeatability and reproducibility of data, to determine the dependence of the wear coefficient on the relative humidity, to understand the underlying physicochemical phenomena and to build three dimensional maps of the wear coefficient as a function of both humidity and the product of normal force and sliding distance. KW - Wear KW - 100Cr6 KW - Relative humidity PY - 2020 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wear.2020.203239 VL - 450-451 SP - 203239 AN - OPUS4-50583 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Friedrich, Sebastian A1 - Cappella, Brunero T1 - Study of micro- and nanoscale wetting properties of lubricants using AFM force-distance curves N2 - Atomic force microscopy (AFM) plays an important role as a multifuntional tool in nanotribology.In the present work it was shown that the main features of force-distance curves on different lubricants have been characterized and the underlying phenomena could be explained. KW - Lubricants KW - Atomic force microscopy KW - Force-distance curves PY - 2020 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-504631 DO - https://doi.org/10.1007/s11249-020-1275-3 SN - 1573-2711 VL - 68 IS - 1 SP - 1 EP - 12 PB - Springer CY - Cham AN - OPUS4-50463 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Friedrich, Sebastian A1 - Cappella, Brunero T1 - Application of contact-resonance AFM methods to polymer samples N2 - Contact-resonance AFM (CR-AFM) has been used in recent years for the measurement of mechanical properties. Compared with other techniques, CR-AFM has a much shorter acquisition time, compensating the incomplete theoretical understanding of the underlying physical phenomena. In the present paper, we propose a procedure, which allows to determine the elastic modulus of the sample as a parameter of the fit of the CR frequency as a function of the load. It is concluded that CR measurements are not appropriate for polymer samples. Major drawbacks are the bad resolution for moduli lower than ca. 10 GPa and the lack of a comprehensive physical model. KW - Atomic force microscopy KW - Contact resonance KW - Mechanical properties KW - Polymers KW - Wear PY - 2020 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-515621 DO - https://doi.org/10.3762/bjnano.11.154 VL - 11 SP - 1714 EP - 1727 AN - OPUS4-51562 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Cappella, Brunero T1 - Force-distance curves on lubricant films: An approach to the characterization of the shape of the AFM tip N2 - Force-distance curves have been acquired with an atomic force microscope on perfluorpolyether films. It is shown that curves acquired on films of different thickness, at different rates and with different dwell times can be overlapped by rescaling the time or distance axis.When the time or distance axis is rescaled,the force depends only on the surface tension of perfluorpolyether and on geometrical properties of thetip (aperture and perimeter of the tip at a given distance from the apex). Hence, curves acquired with thesame tip overlap. By comparing curves acquired at different rates the dynamics of tip-wetting can be investigated. Fur-thermore, rescaled force-distance curves have been matched with the perimeter of cross sections ofthe tip, i.e. with the perimeter of the three-phase contact line. Such measurements pave the way for anon-destructive investigation of the tip shape. KW - Lubricant films KW - Surface tension KW - Atomic force microscopy KW - Force-distance curves KW - AFM tip shape PY - 2017 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.micron.2016.11.006 SN - 0968-4328 VL - 93 SP - 20 EP - 28 AN - OPUS4-38391 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -