The physics of sliding friction is gaining impulse from nanoscale and mesoscale
experiments, simulations, and theoretical modeling. This Colloquium reviews some recent …

This review provides an overview of recent advances that have been achieved in
understanding the basic physics of friction and energy dissipation in molecularly thin …

In this work we consider the role of aperiodic order in different domains of science and
technology from an interdisciplinary approach. To start with, we introduce some general …

Friction is one of the oldest problems in physics with a huge practical significance. However,
during the last decade this problem gets strong acceleration due to the development of new …

One of the Top Selling Physics Books according to YBP Library ServicesOrder can be found
in all the structures unfolding around us at different scales, including in the arrangements of …

This book provides an interdisciplinary guide to quasicrystals, the 2011 Nobel Prize in
Chemistry winning topic, by presenting an up-to-date and detailed introduction to the many …

Numerous crystalline materials, including those of bioorganic origin, comprise
incommensurate sublattices whose mutual arrangement is described in a superspace …

Over the last decade, remarkable developments in nanotechnology, notably the use of
atomic and friction force microscopes (AFM/FFM), the surface-force apparatus (SFA) and the …

The nonlinear dynamics associated with sliding friction forms a broad interdisciplinary
research field that involves complex dynamical processes and patterns covering a broad …

A short survey of a modern view on the problem of friction from the physical viewpoint is
presented. An atomically thin lubricant film confined between two substrates in moving …