Frictional characteristics of atomically thin sheets

Science

Volumn 328, Issue 5974, 2010, Pages 76-80

  Lee, Changgu ^a   Li, Qunyang ^b   Kalb, William ^a   Liu, Xin Zhou ^c   Berger, Helmuth ^d   Carpick, Robert W ^b   Hone, James ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BORON NITRIDE NANOTUBE; DISULFIDE; GRAPHENE; MICA; MOLYBDENUM DISULFIDE; NIOBIUM; OXIDE; SILICON OXIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRICTION; MEMBRANE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SILICON; SUBSTRATE; THIN SECTION;

ADHESION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELASTIC FIBER; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; FORCE; FRICTION; MICROSCOPY; NANOANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 77950480784     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1184167     Document Type: Article

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