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The renaissance of friction

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500 years after the first studies on friction, the concepts of superlubricity, wearless sliding and friction control are being realized in laboratories and have become predictable by adequate modelling. The challenge now is to bridge the gap between what is known about these processes on the microscopic and macroscopic scales.

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Figure 1: Scheme of a typical experiment to study friction at the nanoscale, in which an AFM tip is driven along a surface.

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  1. Michael Urbakh is in the School of Chemistry, Tel Aviv University, 69978 Tel Aviv, Israel urbakh@post.tau.ac.il,

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  2. Ernst Meyer is in the Department of Physics, University of Basel, Klingelbergstraße 82, 4056 Basel, Switzerland ernst.meyer@unibas.ch,

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Urbakh, M., Meyer, E. The renaissance of friction. Nature Mater 9, 8–10 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat2599

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