Tribology Letters

Preface

Structures, solvation forces and shear of molecular films in a rough nano-confinement

Jianping Gao, W.D. Luedtke, Uzi Landman

Using FIB-processed AFM cantilevers to determine microtribology characteristics

Y. Ando, T. Nagashima, K. Kakuta

“Millipede” – an AFM data storage system at the frontier of nanotribology

U. Dürig, G. Cross, M. Despont, U. Drechsler, W. Häberle, M.I. Lutwyche, H. Rothuizen, R. Stutz, R. Widmer, P. Vettiger, G.K. Binnig, W.P. King, K.E. Goodson

Stress intensity in viscoelastic contacts

M. Giri, D. Bousfield, W.N. Unertl

Real-time observation of twin boundary motion in crystals: an ideal dry friction system

Kazushige Kawabata, Yasuyoshi Hosokawa, Tomoyuki Saga, Takashi Sambongi

Macroscopic versus microscopic description of friction: from Tomlinson model to shearons

Markus Porto, Veaceslav Zaloj, Michael Urbakh, Joseph Klafter

Shear-induced dilation of confined liquid films

Ali Dhinojwala, Sung Chul Bae, Steve Granick

Simulations of friction anisotropy on ordered organic monolayer

Takuya Ohzono, Masamichi Fujihira

Load dependence of sticking-domain distribution in two-dimensional atomic scale friction of NaF(100) surface

Satoru Fujisawa, Kousuke Yokoyama, Yasuhiro Sugawara, Seizo Morita

Evidence of commensurate contact and rolling motion: AFM manipulation studies of carbon nanotubes on HOPG

M.R. Falvo, J. Steele, R.M. Taylor II, R. Superfine

Quantitative elastic modulus measurement by magnetic force modulation microscopy

O. Piétrement, M. Troyon

Some recent progress in microtribology in Japan

Reizo Kaneko

Nanoparticle detachment: a possible link between macro- and nanotribology?

Marcel Brendlé, Pascal Diss, Philippe Stempflé

Numerical and theoretical study of friction between atomically clean surfaces and effects of impurities

H. Matsukawa, T. Kawaguchi

FTIR spectroscopy and nanotribological comparative studies: influence of the adsorbed water layers on the tribological behaviour

T. Bouhacina, B. Desbat, J.P. Aimé

Sliding friction dynamics of hard single asperities on soft surfaces

W.P. Vellinga, C.P. Hendriks