Volume 15, Issue 2

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August 2003

Selected Papers from the Second International Workshop on Microtribology, April 2002, Ishigaki Island, Japan

Issue Editors:

Shigeyuku Mori,
Yasuhisa Ando

12 articles in this issue

Preface
Shigeyuki Mori
Yasuhisa Ando
Preface Pages: 75 - 75
Load-Carrying Capacity and Friction Characteristics of a Water Droplet on Hydrophobic Surfaces
Kenji Suzuki
Yurika Uyeda
OriginalPaper Pages: 77 - 82
Glasslike Transitions in Thin Polymer-Melt Films Due to Thickness Constraint
Shinji Yamada
Gen-ichi Nakamura
Takayuki Amiya
OriginalPaper Pages: 83 - 89
Tapping Effect on Friction Between Slider and Disk
Lizhi Su
Junguo Xu
Koshi Adachi
OriginalPaper Pages: 91 - 96
Frequency Characteristics of Stiffness and Damping Effect of a Ferrofluid Bearing
M. Miwa
H. Harita
H. Unozawa
OriginalPaper Pages: 97 - 105
Evaluation of a Lightly Scratched Amorphous Carbon Surface by Contact Resistance of a Conductive Diamond Tip and the Carbon Surface
Shigeki Tsuchitani
Shinichiro Morishita
Shigeru Umemura
OriginalPaper Pages: 107 - 113
Relation Between Friction and Plastic Deformation Examined by Using Periodic Asperity Arrays Fabricated on an AFM Multipurpose Cantilever
Y. Ando
OriginalPaper Pages: 115 - 125
Modification of Boundary Lubrication by Oil-Soluble Friction Modifier Additives
Yingxi Zhu
Hiroko Ohtani
Steve Granick
OriginalPaper Pages: 127 - 134
Fundamental Investigation of Micro Wear Rate Using an Atomic Force Microscope
Koo-Hyun Chung
Dae-Eun Kim
OriginalPaper Pages: 135 - 144
The Effect of Topography on Water Wetting and Micro/Nano Tribological Characteristics of Polymeric Surfaces
Eui-Sung Yoon
Seung Ho Yang
Ki-Hwan Kim
OriginalPaper Pages: 145 - 154
Development and Application of a Novel Quantum-Chemical Molecular-Dynamics Method for Degradation Dynamics of Organic Lubricants Under High Temperatures and Pressures
Hui Zhou
Parasuraman Selvam
Akira Miyamoto
OriginalPaper Pages: 155 - 162
Lateral Displacement of an AFM Tip Observed by In-Situ TEM/AFM Combined Microscopy: The Effect of the Friction in AFM
S. Fujisawa
T. Kizuka
OriginalPaper Pages: 163 - 168

Volume 15, Issue 2

Preface

Load-Carrying Capacity and Friction Characteristics of a Water Droplet on Hydrophobic Surfaces

Glasslike Transitions in Thin Polymer-Melt Films Due to Thickness Constraint

Tapping Effect on Friction Between Slider and Disk

Frequency Characteristics of Stiffness and Damping Effect of a Ferrofluid Bearing

Evaluation of a Lightly Scratched Amorphous Carbon Surface by Contact Resistance of a Conductive Diamond Tip and the Carbon Surface

Relation Between Friction and Plastic Deformation Examined by Using Periodic Asperity Arrays Fabricated on an AFM Multipurpose Cantilever

Modification of Boundary Lubrication by Oil-Soluble Friction Modifier Additives

Fundamental Investigation of Micro Wear Rate Using an Atomic Force Microscope

The Effect of Topography on Water Wetting and Micro/Nano Tribological Characteristics of Polymeric Surfaces

Development and Application of a Novel Quantum-Chemical Molecular-Dynamics Method for Degradation Dynamics of Organic Lubricants Under High Temperatures and Pressures

Lateral Displacement of an AFM Tip Observed by In-Situ TEM/AFM Combined Microscopy: The Effect of the Friction in AFM

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