SUPERLUBRICITY
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SUPERLUBRICITY
Edited by Ali Erdemir Argonne National Laboratory Argonne, USA and Jean-Michel Martin Ecole Centrale de Lyon Lyon, France
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Contents Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvii Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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1 Superlubricity for Incommensurate Crystalline and Disordered Interfaces J.B. Sokoloff 1.1 Superlubricity for Incommensurate Interfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.2 Superlubricity for Disordered Interfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.3 Friction Resulting from Multiscale Roughness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.4 Superlubricity Resulting from Polymer Brushes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.5 Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .