Onset of frictional slip by domain nucleation in adsorbed monolayers

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1311-1316

  Reguzzoni, Marco ^a   Ferrario, Mauro ^a   Zapperi, Stefano ^a,b   Righi, Maria Clelia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^b INFM   (Italy)

Author keywords

Commensurate interface; Creep; Depinning; Friction; Quartz crystal microbalance (QCM)

Indexed keywords

COPPER; XENON;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; ENERGY; FORCE; MOTION; PHYSICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 76549088279     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0909993107     Document Type: Article

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