Fundamentals of Friction and Wear

In the past twenty years, powerful tools such as atomic force microscopy have made it possible to accurately investigate the phenomena of friction and wear, down to the nanometer scale. Readers of this book will become familiar with the concepts and techniques of nanotribology, explained by an international team of scientists and engineers, actively involved and with long experience in this field. Edited by two pioneers in the field, 'Fundamentals of Frictions and Wear at the Nanoscale' is suitable both as first introduction to this fascinating subject, and also as a reference for researchers wishing to improve their knowledge of nanotribology and to keep up with the latest results in this field.

Experimental Techniques.- Friction Force Microscopy.- Surface Forces Apparatus in Nanotribology.- The quartz crystal microbalance as a nanotribology technique.- Nanoscale Friction and Ultrasonics.- Probing of Nanocontacts Inside a Transmission Electron Microscope.- Friction on the Atomic Scale, Superlubricity.- Stick-Slip Motion on the Atomic Scale.- Velocity dependence of atomic friction: Rate theory and beyond.- The Basic of Nanoscale Friction and Ways to Control it.- Experimental Observations of Superlubricity and Thermolubricity.- Theoretical Aspects of Superlubricity.- First-Principles Atomic-Scale Study of Superlow Friction.- Contact Mechanics on the Nanoscale.- NanoMechanics: Elasticity in Nano-Objects.- Mechanical Properties of Metallic Nanojunctions.- Contact Mechanics, Friction and Adhesion with Application to Quasicrystals.- A Multiscale Molecular Dynamics Approach to Contact Mechanics and Friction: From Continuum Mechanics to Molecular Dynamics.- The Role of Nanoroughness in Contact Mechanics.- Dissipation Mechanisms at Finite Separations.- Energy Dissipation and Nanoscale Imaging in Tapping Mode AFM.- Mechanisms of atomic scale dissipation at close approach in dynamic atomic force microscopy.- Theory of Noncontact Friction.- Dissipation at large Separations.- Wear and Fracture on the Nanoscale.- Surface-Damage Mechanisms: from Nano- and Microcontacts to Wear of Materials.- Single Asperity Nanometer-Scale Studies of Tribochemstry.- Nanotribology of MEMS/NEMS.- Nanotribology in Automotive Industry.- Manipulation of Nanoparticles.- Nanotribological Studies by Nanoparticle Manipulation.- Mechanical Properties of Carbon Nanotubes.- Theory of Adsorption and Manipulation of C60 on the Si(001) Surface.- Organic Materials.- Nanoscale Friction of Self-assembled Monolayers.- Sliding Friction of Polymers: The Complex Role of Interface.- Molecular Origins of Elastomeric Friction.- Nanotribological Perspectives in Tissue Engineering.