Material Science: High frictional anisotropy of periodic and aperiodic directions on a quasicrystal surface

Science

Volumn 309, Issue 5739, 2005, Pages 1354-1356

  Park, Jeong Young ^a   Ogletree, D F ^a   Salmeron, M ^a   Ribeiro, R A ^b   Canfield, P C ^b   Jenks, C J ^b   Thiel, P A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; CRYSTAL ATOMIC STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; ENERGY DISSIPATION; FRICTION; OXIDATION; PASSIVATION; PHONONS; QUASICRYSTALS; TITANIUM NITRIDE;

FRICTIONAL ANISOTROPY; QUASICRYSTAL SLIDES;

ANISOTROPY;

ALUMINUM; COBALT; HEXADECANE; NICKEL; THIOL; TITANIUM;

ANISOTROPY;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CRYSTAL; ELECTRON; ENERGY; FORCE; FRICTION; PHONON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SURFACE PROPERTY;

EID: 23944463389     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1113239     Document Type: Article

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