Imaging high-speed friction at the nanometer scale

It has been a challenge to characterize microscopic origins of friction at high velocities. Here authors extend atomic force microscopy to develop a dynamic technique combining force sensitivity and spatial resolution and able to probe, at each image pixel, frictional forces at velocities up to seve...

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Main Authors: Per-Anders Thorén, Astrid S. de Wijn, Riccardo Borgani, Daniel Forchheimer, David B. Haviland
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2016-12-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13836