Experimental Observation of the Aubry Transition in Two-Dimensional Colloidal Monolayers
The possibility to achieve entirely frictionless, i.e., superlubric, sliding between solids holds enormous potential for the operation of mechanical devices. At small length scales, where mechanical contacts are well defined, Aubry predicted a transition from a superlubric to a pinned state when the...
| Main Authors: | , , , , , , |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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American Physical Society
2018-03-01
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| Series: | Physical Review X |
| Online Access: | http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.8.011050 |