Dynamics and Friction in Submicrometer Confining Systems

by Braiman, Y.; Drake, J. M.; Family, F.; Klafter, J.

• ISBN13: 9780841238299
• ISBN10: 0841238294
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-09-02
• Publisher: American Chemical Society

Summary

Dynamics and Friction in Sub-Micrometer Confining Systems emphasizes recent advancements in understanding and implementing dynamical properties at the sub-micron scales such as re-distribution and release of energy at the nano-scale due to confinement, and frictional dynamics and control atthe atomic scale.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Scanning Tunneling Microscope-Quartz Crystal Microbalance Studies of "Real World" and Model Lubricants	p. 1
Cold Welding and the Origins of Stick-Slip Friction	p. 19
Dynamic Force Spectroscopy: Effect of Thermal Fluctuations on Friction and Adhesion	p. 29
Non-Lipshitzian Control of Friction	p. 41
Nature of Instabilities in Boundary Lubricants and Their Effect on Kinetic Friction	p. 55
Effects on Friction of Adsorbed Molecules: How They Modify Dry Friction	p. 69
Iterated Conformal Maps and Pinning of Stick-Slip Laplacian Flows	p. 85
Dynamics of Nanomechanical Devices	p. 97
Wetting, Confinement, and Drainage of Liquids	p. 123
The Implication of "Jump-In" for the Shear Viscosity of Ultra Thin Liquid Films	p. 131
Modeling Structure Property Relationships in Synthetic Basestocks	p. 139
The Complex Behavior of Simple Fluids in Nanoscale Restricted Geometries	p. 157
Spatially Resolved Dynamics of Supercooled Liquids Confined in Porous Glasses: Importance of the Liquid-Glass Interface	p. 181
Reorientational Dynamics of Water Confined in Nanopores	p. 193
Theory of Unimolecular Reactions in Confined Volumes	p. 205
Indexes
Author Index	p. 219
Subject Index	p. 220
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