Engines and other machines with moving parts are often limited in their design and operational lifetime by friction and wear. This limitation has motivated the study of fundamental tribological processes with the ultimate aim of controlling and minimizing their impact. The recent development of miniature apparatus, such as microelectromechanical system (MEMS)microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and nanometer-scaledevicesnanometer-scale devices, has increased interest in atomic-scalefrictionatomic-scale friction, which has been found to, in some cases, be due to mechanisms that are distinct from the mechanisms that dominate in macroscale friction.
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Sinnott, S., Heo, S.-J., Brenner, D., & Harrison, J. (2007). Computer Simulations of Nanometer-Scale Indentation and Friction. In Springer Handbook of Nanotechnology (pp. 1051–1106). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-29857-1_35
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