Adsorbed layers and the origin of static friction

Science

Volumn 284, Issue 5420, 1999, Pages 1650-1652

  Gang, He ^a   Müser, Martin H ^a,b   Robbins, Mark O ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; CRYSTAL; FRICTION; GEOMETRY; LUBRICATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLID; SURFACE PROPERTY; VACUUM;

EID: 0005681276     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.284.5420.1650     Document Type: Article

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38. Financial support from NSF grant DMR-9634131 is gratefully acknowledged. We are also grateful to Intel for donating workstations on which these simulations were run.