Kinetic nanofriction: A mechanism transition from quasi-continuous to ballistic-like brownian regime

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 7, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Zadeh, Mehdi Jafary ^a   Reddy, Chilla Damodara ^b   Sorkin, Viacheslav ^b   Zhang, Yong Wei ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE OF HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICAL PROCESS; ELECTRO-MECHANICAL; KINETIC FRICTION; LOW FRICTION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; NANO SCALE; NANO-SCALE SURFACES; NANOFRICTION; SOLID SURFACE; SURFACE MASS TRANSPORT; TECHNOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS; TEMPERATURE CHANGES; TWO-REGIME;

BALLISTICS; BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; EPITAXIAL GROWTH; GRAPHENE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SURFACE DIFFUSION;

KINETICS;

EID: 84863278037     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-7-148     Document Type: Article

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