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The nontrivial role of system stiffness in nanofriction

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One of the most surprising results of nanotribology from the physical point of view is the fact that the magnitude of the friction force in the commonly observed stick-slip regime is determined by not only the conditions of the contact between bodies under consideration, which is natural, but also and to an equal extent the stiffness of a measuring system. The nontrivial role of the stiffness in atomic friction is discussed in this work. It is shown that, under some conditions, it can play the role of a specific order parameter that determines the transitions between different friction regimes and, accordingly, different scenarios of dissipation of mechanical energy and momentum.

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  1. Frumkin Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninskii pr. 31, Moscow, 119071, Russia

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Original Russian Text © S.Yu. Krylov, 2013, published in Kolloidnyi Zhurnal, 2013, Vol. 75, No. 3, pp. 327–331.

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Krylov, S.Y. The nontrivial role of system stiffness in nanofriction. Colloid J 75, 297–300 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1061933X13030101

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