AVS 45th International Symposium
    Nanometer-scale Science and Technology Division Monday Sessions

Session NS+SS-MoM
Tribology, Adhesion and Interfacial Forces

Monday, November 2, 1998, 8:20 am, Room 321/322/323
Moderator: J.E. Houston, Sandia National Laboratories


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8:20am NS+SS-MoM1 Invited Paper
Nanotribological Interactions: Hard and Soft Interfacial Junctions
U. Landman, Georgia Institute of Technology
9:00am NS+SS-MoM3 Invited Paper
Measuring Nanocontact Adhesion and Deformation
J.B. Pethica, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
9:40am NS+SS-MoM5
Adhesive Interactions and Damage Mechanisms in Scanning Probe Microscopy: A Study by Interfacial Force Microscopy
J.F. Graham, O.L. Warren, P.R. Norton, University of Western Ontario, Canada
10:00am NS+SS-MoM6
Friction and Adhesion in the Attractive Regime
A.R. Burns, J.E. Houston, R.W. Carpick, Sandia National Laboratories
10:20am NS+SS-MoM7
Tribology and Mechanical Properties of Langmuir-Blodgett Monolayers
K.J. Wahl, W.R. Barger, S. Asif, Naval Research Laboratory
10:40am NS+SS-MoM8
Deformation and Friction of Organic Monolayers
J.D. Kiely, J.E. Houston, Sandia National Laboratories
11:00am NS+SS-MoM9
Structure-Dependent Viscoelasticity During Alkane Thiol Monolayer Growth
N.D. Shinn, T.M. Mayer, T.A. Michalske, Sandia National Laboratories
11:20am NS+SS-MoM10
Lubrication Brought to Light: Optical Signatures of Nanomechanical Effects in Organic Thin Films
R.W. Carpick, D.Y. Sasaki, S. Singh, A.R. Burns, Sandia National Laboratories
11:40am NS+SS-MoM11
In-situ Investigation of the Influence of a Mechanical Load on the Orientation of Organic Monolayers with Second Harmonic Generation
M. Gurka, F. Eisert, M. Buck, M. Grunze, University of Heidelberg, Germany