Observation of microscale superlubricity in graphite

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 108, Issue 20, 2012, Pages

  Liu, Ze ^a,b   Yang, Jiarui ^a   Grey, Francois ^a   Liu, Jefferson Zhe ^c   Liu, Yilun ^a   Wang, Yibing ^d   Yang, Yanlian ^d   Cheng, Yao ^a   Zheng, Quanshui ^a,b  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANCHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR NANOSCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT CONDITIONS; CONTACT AREAS; FRICTIONAL FORCES; HIGHLY ORIENTED PYROLITIC GRAPHITES; INTERFACE ENERGY; MICRO-SCALES; MICROMECHANICAL SYSTEMS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; SUPERLUBRICITY; ULTRA-LOW FRICTION;

FRICTION;

GRAPHITE;

EID: 84861629760     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.205503     Document Type: Article

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