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This book provides an updated review on the development of scanning
probe microscopy and related techniques, and the availability of
computational techniques not even imaginable a few decades ago. The
36 chapters cover instrumental aspects, theoretical models and
selected experimental results, thus offering a broad panoramic view
on fundamental issues in nanotribology which are currently being
investigated. Compared to the first edition, several topics have
been added, including triboluminescence, graphene mechanics,
friction and wear in liquid environments, capillary condensation,
and multiscale friction modeling. Particular care has been taken to
avoid overlaps and guarantee the independence of the chapters. In
this way, our book aims to become a key reference on this subject
for the next five to ten years to come.
Combining the classical theories of contact mechanics and
lubrication with the study of friction on the nanometer range, this
multi-scale book for researchers and students alike guides the
reader deftly through the mechanisms governing friction processes,
based on state-of-the-art models and experimental results. The
first book in the field to incorporate recent research on
nanotribology with classical theories of contact mechanics, this
unique text explores atomic scale scratches, non-contact friction
and fishing of molecular nanowires as observed in the lab.
Beginning with simple key concepts, the reader is guided through
progressively more complex topics, such as contact of self-affine
surfaces and nanomanipulation, in a consistent style, encompassing
both macroscopic and atomistic descriptions of friction, and using
unified notations to enable use by physicists and engineers across
the scientific community.
Ionic crystals are among the simplest structures in nature. They
can be easily cleaved in air and in vacuum, and the resulting
surfaces are atomically flat on areas hundreds of nanometers wide.
With the development of scanning probe microscopy, these surfaces
have become an ideal "playground" to investigate several phenomena
occurring on the nanometer scale. This book focuses on the
fundamental studies of atomically resolved imaging, nanopatterning,
metal deposition, molecular self-assembling and nanotribological
processes occurring on ionic crystal surfaces. Here, a significant
variety of structures are created by nanolithography, annealing and
irradiation by electrons, ions or photons, and are used to confine
metal particles and organic molecules or to improve our basic
understanding of friction and wear on the atomic scale. Metal
oxides with wide band gap are also discussed. Altogether, the
results obtained so far will have an undoubted impact on the future
development of nanoelectronics and nanomechanics.
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