Calculations of the impact of friction and wear on energy consumption, economic
expenditure, and CO 2 emissions are presented on a global scale. This impact study covers …

The special mechanical properties of nanoparticles allow for novel applications in many
fields, eg, surface engineering, tribology and nanomanufacturing/nanofabrication. In this …

A few years after the invention of the scanning tunneling microscope (STM), the atomic force
microscope (AFM) was developed. 1 Instead of measuring tunneling current, a new physical …

Solid lubricants fill a special niche in reducing wear in situations where the use of liquid
lubricants is either impractical or inadequate, such as in vacuum, space technology or …

As the size of electronic and mechanical devices shrinks to the nanometre regime,
performance begins to be dominated by surface forces. For example, friction, wear and …

▪ Abstract Atomic force microscopy is an imaging tool used widely in fundamental research,
although it has, like other scanned probe microscopies, provided only limited information …

We present a technique to measure the lateral stiffness of the nanometer-sized contact
formed between a friction force microscope tip and a sample surface. Since the lateral …

This review provides an overview of recent advances that have been achieved in
understanding the basic physics of friction and energy dissipation in molecularly thin …

Friction force microscopy is an important analytical tool in the field of tribology on the
nanometer-scale. The contact area between the probing tip and the sample is reduced to …

A new method to calculate the elastic deformation of a sphere on a flat surface is presented.
The model considers the influence of short-range as well as long-range attractive forces …