AVS 45th International Symposium
    Nanometer-scale Science and Technology Division Monday Sessions
       Session NS+SS-MoM

Invited Paper NS+SS-MoM1
Nanotribological Interactions: Hard and Soft Interfacial Junctions

Monday, November 2, 1998, 8:20 am, Room 321/322/323

Session: Tribology, Adhesion and Interfacial Forces
Presenter: U. Landman, Georgia Institute of Technology
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Certain aspects of the dependence of materials properties on their size will be addressed, particularly at the nanometer length scale where new behaviour emerges when the physical dimensions of the system approach, or are reduced below, a characteristic length relevant for the phenomenon or physical process being probed. We focus on computer simulation studies of formation mechanisms, structural, mechanical, electronic, transport, dynamic and rheological properties of nanoscale hard (solid nanowires) and soft (confined liquid) interfacial junctions. These issues are central to research in nanotribology, that is explorations of the atomic and molecular scale origins and methods of control of friction and lubrication, and are relevant to modern miniaturization technologies. Work supported by DOE and AFOSR.