Nanotribology: friction, wear and lubrication at the atomic scale
Abstract
Friction, wear and lubrication between materials in contact are of fundamental importance in many pure and applied sciences. Owing to the development of experimental and computer-simulation techniques for studying these phenomena at the atomic scale, an understanding is beginning to emerge of the molecular mechanisms of tribology in thin films and at surfaces.
- Publication:
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Nature
- Pub Date:
- April 1995
- DOI:
- 10.1038/374607a0
- Bibcode:
- 1995Natur.374..607B
- Keywords:
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- Atomic Structure;
- Friction;
- Lubrication;
- Surface Reactions;
- Thin Films;
- Tribology;
- Wear;
- Atomic Force Microscopy;
- Computerized Simulation;
- Contact Loads;
- Lubricants;
- Molecular Dynamics;
- Atomic and Molecular Physics