The measuring tip of an atomic force microscope with a specially designed holder in which a spherical particle is “trapped”. The rights to the images always remain with the person referred to ...

Schematic illustration of Friction Force Microscopy (FFM). The AFM cantilever, a small diving board-like structure about 200 micrometers long, 50 micrometers wide, and 1 micrometer thick, has a sharp ...

Friction is a force between two surfaces that are sliding ... is less wear on the car's moving parts and less heat produced. Image caption, Ice causes very little friction, which is why it ...

ETH Zurich scientists measure rolling friction in micrometer-sized particles, enhancing understanding of suspensions in ...

Biotin (blue lines) is pulled out of a streptavidin protein (yellow) via a polymer linker (gray line), which is bound to a cantilever tip of an atomic force microscope (gray triangle).

Perhaps few physical concepts have received less attention relative to their importance than friction. Learning the 'effective' notions of static and sliding friction, students of mechanics can ...

such as friction force microscopes, surface force apparatus or quartz microbalances, and the availability of advanced computational methods, which give access to nanoscale friction and wear phenomena.

Friction is a force between two surfaces that are sliding ... is less wear on the car's moving parts and less heat produced. Image caption, Ice causes very little friction, which is why it ...