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Friction
Surface resistance to the relative motion of one body against the rubbing, sliding, rolling, or flowing of another with which it is in contact.
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Highly Cited
2010
Highly Cited
2010
Frictional Characteristics of Atomically Thin Sheets
Changgu Lee
,
Qunyang Li
,
+4 authors
J. Hone
Science
2010
Corpus ID: 24415664
Thin Friction The rubbing motion between two surfaces is always hindered by friction, which is caused by continuous contacting…
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Highly Cited
2009
Highly Cited
2009
Friction laws at the nanoscale
Yifei Mo
,
K. Turner
,
I. Szlufarska
Nature
2009
Corpus ID: 4383774
Macroscopic laws of friction do not generally apply to nanoscale contacts. Although continuum mechanics models have been…
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Highly Cited
2003
Highly Cited
2003
Investigation on Convective Heat Transfer and Flow Features of Nanofluids
Y. Xuan
,
Qiang Li
2003
Corpus ID: 109928800
Low thermal conductivity is a primary limitation in the development of energy-efficient heat transfer fluids that are required in…
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Highly Cited
2001
Highly Cited
2001
Theory of rubber friction and contact mechanics
B. Persson
2001
Corpus ID: 59145553
When rubber slides on a hard, rough substrate, the surface asperities of the substrate exert oscillating forces on the rubber…
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Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
Frictionless Commerce? A Comparison of Internet and Conventional Retailers
Michael D. Smith
,
E. Brynjolfsson
2000
Corpus ID: 12433451
There have been many claims that the Internet represents a new "frictionless market." Our research empirically analyzes the…
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Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
Low-friction nanoscale linear bearing realized from multiwall carbon nanotubes
J. Cumings
,
A. Zettl
Science
2000
Corpus ID: 1533523
We demonstrate the controlled and reversible telescopic extension of multiwall carbon nanotubes, thus realizing ultralow-friction…
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Review
1999
Review
1999
Contact mechanics
J. Barber
,
M. Ciavarella
1999
Corpus ID: 16431579
Review
1998
Review
1998
LABORATORY-DERIVED FRICTION LAWS AND THEIR APPLICATION TO SEISMIC FAULTING
C. Marone
1998
Corpus ID: 18764962
This paper reviews rock friction and the frictional properties of earthquake faults. The basis for rate- and state-dependent…
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Highly Cited
1995
Highly Cited
1995
Nanotribology: friction, wear and lubrication at the atomic scale
B. Bhushan
,
J. Israelachvili
,
U. Landman
Nature
1995
Corpus ID: 4263053
Friction, wear and lubrication between materials in contact are of fundamental importance in many pure and applied sciences…
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Highly Cited
1985
Highly Cited
1985
Canonical dynamics: Equilibrium phase-space distributions.
W. G. Hoover
Physical review. A, General physics
1985
Corpus ID: 45303234
Nose has modified Newtonian dynamics so as to reproduce both the canonical and the isothermal-isobaric probability densities in…
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