Tribology is the study of adhesion, friction, lubrication and wear of surfaces in relative
motion. It remains as important today as it was in ancient times, arising in the fields of …

The lubricating properties of an ionic liquid on gold surfaces can be controlled through
application of an electric potential to the sliding contact. A nanotribology approach has been …

Emulsions with interface-active components at the oil/water interface have long been of
fundamental and practical interest in many fields. In this work, the interaction forces between …

The lubricities of four quaternary phosphonium ionic liquids—trihexyltetradecylphosphonium
bis (2, 4, 4-trimethylpentyl) phosphinate ([P6, 6, 6, 14][(iC8) 2PO2]) …

The role of phospholipid bilayers in controlling and reducing frictional forces between
biological surfaces is investigated by three complementary experiments: friction forces are …

Surfactants play a variety of critical roles in tribology. In addition to controlling friction and
wear, they also allow for control of a wide range of properties of lubricants, such as …

When confined at the nanoscale between smooth surfaces, an ionic liquid forms a structured
film responding to shear in a quantized way, ie, with a friction coefficient indexed by the …

Using a surface forces apparatus, we have investigated the adhesive and lubrication forces
of mica surfaces separated by a molecularly thin, subnanometer film of a high-molecular …

We review experimental results—over the past 10–15 years and more recent theoretical
modeling and computer simulations—on the effects of surface subnanoscale texture on …

We present molecular dynamics friction calculations for confined hydrocarbon “polymer”
solids with molecular lengths from 20 to 1400 carbon atoms. Two cases are considered:(a) …