Mechanism and characters of thin film lubrication at nanometer scale

Science in China, Series A: Mathematics, Physics, Astronomy

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 1996, Pages

  Luo, Jianbin ^a   Wen, Shizhu ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Nanometer scale; Surface energy; Thin film lubrication; Transition of lubrication regimes

Indexed keywords

EID: 1542683399     PISSN: 10069283     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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