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Thickness-dependent frictional behavior of topological insulator Bi2Se3 nanoplates

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Two-dimensional Bi2Se3 TIs were recently found to be the most promising room-temperature topological insulators for its relatively large bulk gap, but its surface frictional response is little investigated. Here, we prepared single-crystalline Bi2Se3 nanoplates with a lateral dimension up to ~ 1 μm and a thickness of less than 200 nm via a simple polyol method, and the molecular structure and morphology were characterized in detail using different methods. The micro-frictional behavior of Bi2Se3 nanoplates with different thickness is inventively investigated with AFM technique. The atomic stick–slip friction stemming from periodic crystal lattice, and the larger friction force of thinner nanoplates is attributed to the larger adhesion force and enhanced energy dissipation. This work has, for the first time, built the link of the behavior of topological protected surface and mechanical friction behavior of Bi2Se3.

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Acknowledgment

This work was financially sponsored in part by the National Key Projects (Grant No. 2017YFA0205800). Part of this work was supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China (Grants No. 51978153) and the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (BK20191023), Scientific Research Foundation of Nanjing Institute of Technology (YJK201909).

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  1. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanjing Institute of Technology, Nanjing, 211167, People’s Republic of China

    Ruijian Zhu

  2. Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Structural Materials and Application Technology, Nanjing, 211167, People’s Republic of China

    Ruijian Zhu

  3. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Construction Materials, Southeast University, Nanjing, 211189, People’s Republic of China

    Zengmei Wang, Xinli Guo, Tong Zhang & Xiaoshuai Li

  4. AML, CNMM, School of Aerospace Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, People’s Republic of China

    Quanzhou Yao & Qunyang Li

  5. State Key Laboratory of Tribology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, People’s Republic of China

    Qunyang Li

  6. Institute for Superconducting and Electronics Materials, University of Wollongong, Innovation Campus, Fairy Meadow, NSW, 2519, Australia

    Zhenxiang Cheng

  7. National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Sengen 1-2-1, Tsukuba, 305-0047, Japan

    Hideo Kimura

  8. Institute of Engineering Innovation, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 2-11-16 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8656, Japan

    Takao Matsumoto, Naoya Shibata & Yuichi Ikuhara

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Zhu, R., Wang, Z., Yao, Q. et al. Thickness-dependent frictional behavior of topological insulator Bi2Se3 nanoplates. Appl. Phys. A 126, 285 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-020-3452-5

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