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 …

The interaction of water and surfaces, at molecular level, is of critical importance for
understanding processes such as corrosion, friction, catalysis and mass transport. The …

Graphene features a two-dimensional structure, where applications from electronic building
blocks to reinforced composites are emerging, enabled through the utilization of its intriguing …

A sheared microscopic graphite mesa retracts spontaneously to minimize interfacial energy.
Using an optical knife-edge technique, we report first measurements of the speeds of such …

Microelectromechanical systems, which can be moved or rotated with nanometre precision,
already find applications in such fields as radio-frequency electronics, micro-attenuators …

In this review we give a detailed description of the recently developed helium-3 spin-echo
technique and its application to several classes of surface dynamic measurements. We …

The relaxation dynamics of hot H, N, and N 2 on Pd (100), Ag (111), and Fe (110),
respectively, is studied by means of ab initio molecular dynamics with electronic friction. This …

Helium Atom Scattering (HAS) and Helium Spin-Echo scattering (HeSE), together helium
scattering, are well established, but non-commercial surface science techniques. They are …

Sliding parts in nanosystems such as nanoelectromechanical systems and nanomotors,,,,,,,,
increasingly involve large speeds, and rotations as well as translations of the moving …

Nanoscale tribology is an active and rapidly develo** area of research that poses
fundamental scientific questions that, if answered, may offer great technological potential in …