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Three-dimensional subatomic scale AFM can measure friction

11.05.2017 tribonet 1,078 Views

Atomic force microscopy (AFM) is an extremely sensitive technique that allows us to image materials and/or characterize their physical properties on the atomic scale by sensing the force above material surfaces using a precisely controlled […]

Contact Area vs. Load: Simple Scaling Laws

04.07.2016 1,428 Views

“God made the bulk; surfaces were invented by the devil”, a Nobel prize winning physicist Wolfgang Ernst Pauli said. In tribology, as in many other sciences, surface features (asperities, roughness) play an important role. In [...]
Cartilage tribology: Slip sliding away

22.01.2018 881 Views

Research sheds light on friction, lubrication and wear in cartilage 11:25 a.m., Aug. 24, 2015–Osteoarthritis, which affects some 27 million people in the U.S. alone, occurs when the protective cartilage on the ends of bones [...]
Super-ballistic electron flow confirmed

01.12.2017 1,224 Views

Behaving like particles in a viscous fluid can help bunches of electrons squeeze through a tight space. When many people try to squeeze through a passageway at the same time, it creates a bottleneck that [...]
Ice crystals formation is controlled by the surface texture - new study shows

18.05.2017 1,055 Views

WASHINGTON (May 17, 2017)—A new study examining how ice forms from pure water found that the geometry of the surface that water is on can have an effect on whether or not it freezes, suggesting [...]
Friction and Wear: From Elementary Mechanisms to Macroscopic Behavior

23.09.2019 1,252 Views

In the last 25 years, the global trend to miniaturization has raised interest in frictional processes on the micro and nano scale and facilitated appearance of nanotribology as a new branch of research. Soon it [...]