1. Preface

   Preface Pages: 1 - 1

2. Structures, solvation forces and shear of molecular films in a rough nano-confinement

   • Jianping Gao
   • W.D. Luedtke
   • Uzi Landman

   OriginalPaper Pages: 3 - 13

3. Using FIB-processed AFM cantilevers to determine microtribology characteristics

   • Y. Ando
   • T. Nagashima
   • K. Kakuta

   OriginalPaper Pages: 15 - 23

4. “Millipede” – an AFM data storage system at the frontier of nanotribology

   • U. Dürig
   • G. Cross
   • K.E. Goodson

   OriginalPaper Pages: 25 - 32

5. Stress intensity in viscoelastic contacts

   • M. Giri
   • D. Bousfield
   • W.N. Unertl

   OriginalPaper Pages: 33 - 39

6. Real-time observation of twin boundary motion in crystals: an ideal dry friction system

   • Kazushige Kawabata
   • Yasuyoshi Hosokawa
   • Takashi Sambongi

   OriginalPaper Pages: 41 - 44

7. Macroscopic versus microscopic description of friction: from Tomlinson model to shearons

   • Markus Porto
   • Veaceslav Zaloj
   • Joseph Klafter

   OriginalPaper Pages: 45 - 54

8. Shear-induced dilation of confined liquid films

   • Ali Dhinojwala
   • Sung Chul Bae
   • Steve Granick

   OriginalPaper Pages: 55 - 62

9. Simulations of friction anisotropy on ordered organic monolayer

   • Takuya Ohzono
   • Masamichi Fujihira

   OriginalPaper Pages: 63 - 67

10. Load dependence of sticking-domain distribution in two-dimensional atomic scale friction of NaF(100) surface

    • Satoru Fujisawa
    • Kousuke Yokoyama
    • Seizo Morita

    OriginalPaper Pages: 69 - 72

11. Evidence of commensurate contact and rolling motion: AFM manipulation studies of carbon nanotubes on HOPG

    • M.R. Falvo
    • J. Steele
    • R. Superfine

    OriginalPaper Pages: 73 - 76

12. Quantitative elastic modulus measurement by magnetic force modulation microscopy

    • O. Piétrement
    • M. Troyon

    OriginalPaper Pages: 77 - 87

13. Some recent progress in microtribology in Japan

    • Reizo Kaneko

    OriginalPaper Pages: 89 - 96

14. Nanoparticle detachment: a possible link between macro- and nanotribology?

    • Marcel Brendlé
    • Pascal Diss
    • Philippe Stempflé

    OriginalPaper Pages: 97 - 104

15. Numerical and theoretical study of friction between atomically clean surfaces and effects of impurities

    • H. Matsukawa
    • T. Kawaguchi

    OriginalPaper Pages: 105 - 110

16. FTIR spectroscopy and nanotribological comparative studies: influence of the adsorbed water layers on the tribological behaviour

    • T. Bouhacina
    • B. Desbat
    • J.P. Aimé

    OriginalPaper Pages: 111 - 117

17. Sliding friction dynamics of hard single asperities on soft surfaces

    • W.P. Vellinga
    • C.P. Hendriks

    OriginalPaper Pages: 119 - 124