Viscosity increase due to confinement of mobile molecules of perfluoropolyethers measured by fiber wobbling method

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 3046-3048

  Itoh, Shintaro ^a   Fukuzawa, Kenji ^a,b   Ando, Takamasa ^a   Zhang, Hedong ^a   Mitsuya, Yasunaga ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Head disk interface; Lubrication; Nanorheology; Nanotribology; Shear force measurement

Indexed keywords

FORCE MEASUREMENT; LUBRICANTS; LUBRICATION; MAGNETIC HEADS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; POLYETHERS; RHEOLOGY; TRIBOLOGY;

HEAD DISK INTERFACES; NANORHEOLOGY; NANOTRIBOLOGY; SHEAR FORCE MEASUREMENT;

VISCOSITY;

EID: 27744531843     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2005.855261     Document Type: Article

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