Imperial College London
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Dr James P. Ewen

Faculty of Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering

RAEng Research Fellow
 
 
 
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462City and Guilds BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

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Publications

Citation

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@article{Weiand:2023:10.1039/D2NR05545G,
author = {Weiand, E and Ewen, JP and Roiter, Y and Koenig, PH and Page, SH and Rodriguez-Ropero, F and Angioletti-Uberti, S and Dini, D},
doi = {10.1039/D2NR05545G},
journal = {Nanoscale},
pages = {7086--7104},
title = {Nanoscale friction of biomimetic hair surfaces},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/D2NR05545G},
volume = {15},
year = {2023}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - We investigate the nanoscale friction between biomimetic hair surfaces using chemical colloidal probe atomic force microscopy experiments and nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulations. In the experiments, friction is measured between water-lubricated silica surfaces functionalised with monolayers formed from either octadecyl or sulfonate groups, which are representative of the surfaces of virgin and ultimately bleached hair, respectively. In the simulations, friction is monitored between coarse-grained model hair surfaces with different levels of chemical damage, where a specified amount of grafted octadecyl groups are randomly replaced with sulfonate groups. The sliding velocity dependence of friction in the simulations can be described using an extended stress-augmented thermally activation model. As the damage level increases in the simulations, the friction coefficient generally increases, but its sliding velocity-dependence decreases. At low sliding velocities, which are closer to those encountered experimentally and physiologically, we observe a monotonic increase of the friction coefficient with damage ratio, which is consistent with our new experiments using biomimetic surfaces and previous ones using real hair. This observation demonstrates that modified surface chemistry, rather than roughness changes or subsurface damage, control the increase in nanoscale friction of bleached or chemically damaged hair. We expect the methods and biomimetic surfaces proposed here to be useful to screen the tribological performance of hair care formulations both experimentally and computationally.
AU  - Weiand,E
AU  - Ewen,JP
AU  - Roiter,Y
AU  - Koenig,PH
AU  - Page,SH
AU  - Rodriguez-Ropero,F
AU  - Angioletti-Uberti,S
AU  - Dini,D
DO  - 10.1039/D2NR05545G
EP  - 7104
PY  - 2023///
SN  - 2040-3364
SP  - 7086
TI  - Nanoscale friction of biomimetic hair surfaces
T2  - Nanoscale
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/D2NR05545G
UR  - https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2023/NR/D2NR05545G
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/103599
VL  - 15
ER  -
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