Friction

Occupational burnout is a syndrome characterized by 3 key dimensions: emotional exhaustion, feelings of cynicism and detachment… Expand

Physical vapour deposition (PVD) is a well-known technology that is widely used for the deposition of thin films regarding many… Expand

Thin Friction The rubbing motion between two surfaces is always hindered by friction, which is caused by continuous contacting… Expand

Macroscopic laws of friction do not generally apply to nanoscale contacts. Although continuum mechanics models have been… Expand

Low thermal conductivity is a primary limitation in the development of energy-efficient heat transfer fluids that are required in… Expand

When rubber slides on a hard, rough substrate, the surface asperities of the substrate exert oscillating forces on the rubber… Expand

We demonstrate the controlled and reversible telescopic extension of multiwall carbon nanotubes, thus realizing ultralow-friction… Expand

A new approach for estimating the indirect costs of disease, which explicitly considers economic circumstances that limit… Expand

Nose has modified Newtonian dynamics so as to reproduce both the canonical and the isothermal-isobaric probability densities in… Expand

Experimental results in the published literature show that at low normal stress the shear stress required to slide one rock over… Expand