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Schirmeisen, A., Schwarz, U.D., Hölscher, H. (2015). Friction Force Microscopy. In: Bhushan, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Nanotechnology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6178-0_37-2

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