The research group invented a completely novel method of controlling friction force between materials using light irradiation. Specifically, the group irradiated a localized area of a cantilever ...

Friction is hard to predict and control, especially since surfaces that come in contact are rarely perfectly flat. New experiments demonstrate that the amount of friction between two silicon surfaces, ...

Topological insulators are innovative materials that conduct electricity on the surface, but act as insulators on the inside. Physicists have begun investigating how they react to friction. Their ...

The speed of water flow is a limiting factor in many membrane-based industrial processes, including desalination, molecular separation and osmotic power generation. Researchers have revealed a ...

The electric field can be regarded as a "multifunctional stimulus source", which can dynamically regulate interface charges, lattice configurations, chemical states and vibration dynamics through five ...

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A technical paper titled “Dynamically tuning friction at the graphene interface using the field effect” was published by researchers at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and University of ...

MEDINA, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Carlisle Brake & Friction (CarlisleCBF), a global leader in brake and friction technology and part of the CentroMotion family of brands, has reached a momentous ...

The friction between a silicon ball and silicon wafer was measured in the experimental set-up shown on the left. The new research demonstrates that there is a direct relation between two effects: the ...

This discovery could potentially lead to the development of technology enabling the movement of micromachines and other small driving parts to be controlled. Measurement of friction force between ...