Using advanced microscopic techniques, researchers from labs around the world have shed light on the molecular basis of friction. Friction is a force that opposes motion when two materials slide over ...

A technical paper titled “Dynamically tuning friction at the graphene interface using the field effect” was published by researchers at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and University of ...

Technological limitations have made studying friction on the atomic scale difficult, but researchers have now made advances in that quest on two fronts. By speeding up a real atomic force microscope ...

Peaks of energy dissipation arising from distortions of a charge density wave have been observed by oscillating the tip of an atomic force microscope a few nanometres above a surface of a layered ...

The term tribology is derived from the Greek word "tribo" meaning rubbing and "logy" meaning knowledge. The original applications by the Greeks of tribology were in trying to understand the motion of ...

If you press your finger gently on a table and slide it across the surface, you will find that it glides fairly easily. If you press harder, it becomes more difficult to slide it as the firmer contact ...