The special mechanical properties of nanoparticles allow for novel applications in many
fields, eg, surface engineering, tribology and nanomanufacturing/nanofabrication. In this …

A few years after the invention of the scanning tunneling microscope (STM), the atomic force
microscope (AFM) was developed. 1 Instead of measuring tunneling current, a new physical …

▪ Abstract Atomic force microscopy is an imaging tool used widely in fundamental research,
although it has, like other scanned probe microscopies, provided only limited information …

We present a technique to measure the lateral stiffness of the nanometer-sized contact
formed between a friction force microscope tip and a sample surface. Since the lateral …

A new method for the specific surface energy investigation based on a combination of the
force spectroscopy and the method of nanofriction study using atomic force microscopy was …

We report the results of probing adhesion and friction forces between surfaces with
functional terminal groups with chemically modified scanning probe microscopy (SPM) tips …

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 …

Load-dependent studies of the frictional properties of the carbon compounds graphite,
diamond, amorphous carbon, and C 60 were performed by friction force spectroscopy in air …

In this review, we present various results obtained by friction force microscopy in the last
decade. Starting with material-specific contrast, commonly observed in friction force maps …

As a hot topic in recent years, molecular dynamics (MD) simulation has become an effective
tool in tribochemistry and lubrication investigations, which provides unique insight on …