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- Title
How do you solve a problem like friction?
- Authors
Buchanan, Mark
- Abstract
In this article, the author discusses a research by Oded Ben-David, Shmuel Rubinstein and Jay Fineberg exploring the micro-details of static and sliding friction as mentioned in this journal. They used a sheet of laser light to make very accurate measurements of the interface between two small polymer blocks as they made one block slide over the other. The experiments show what appears to be an abrupt shift from sticking to sliding, involves something more complex at the molecular scale.
- Subjects
FRICTION; RESEARCH; MECHANICS (Physics); BEN-David, Oded; POLYMERS
- Publication
Nature Physics, 2010, Vol 6, Issue 3, p155
- ISSN
1745-2473
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/nphys1607