Surfactants play a variety of critical roles in tribology. In addition to controlling friction and
wear, they also allow for control of a wide range of properties of lubricants, such as …

Abstract Fractionation through Deterministic Lateral Displacement (DLD) is a promising
microfluidic method, able to address several particle characteristics. The influence of particle …

The compressive and tribological behavior of chemically crosslinked, surface‐attached
hydrogel layers has been investigated by indentation and friction tests using an atomic force …

Wear on the nanoscale, as evidenced by the formation of periodic ripples on a model
polystyrene thin film while a sharp tip is sliding on it with a normal force in the μ N range, is …

We have studied the effect of normal forces and shear forces on the stability and functionality
of a polymer brush layer formed upon adsorption of polymeric micelles on hydrophilic and …

Using atomic force microscopy (AFM), we measured friction between an AFM tip and a
polystyrene surface at 25° C, as a function of the sliding velocity and the applied normal …

In the present work, friction coefficients and wear rates of polyester composites reinforced by
graphite fiber with different diameters and impregnated by vegetable oils (Corn, Olives, and …

A dual UV-curing process inducing in a single step cationic photopolymerization and a
photoinduced sol–gel process was used to obtain novel hybrid coatings. For this, an epoxy …

The ambition of this study is to analyze the role of interfacial interactions in friction and
nanowear of polystyrene, by comparing friction against hydrophobic wafers (methyl …

The use of viscoelastic materials, such as polymers, constantly increases in the field of
nanotechnology. These materials are softer than metallic and inorganic ones, and, because …