This news release is available in German. For a car to accelerate there has to be friction between the tire and the surface of the road. The amount of friction generated depends on numerous factors, ...

Every year, race teams and their suppliers spend millions of dollars and thousands of man hours attempting to reduce friction in a race car. Friction is the racer's friend when it comes to a race ...

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 ...

New experiments have uncovered a way of controlling friction on ionic surfaces at the nanoscale using electrical stimulation and ambient water vapor. Friction impacts motion, hence the need to control ...

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 ...

Physicists have developed an experimental technique to simulate friction at the nanoscale. Using their technique, the researchers are able to directly observe individual atoms at the interface of two ...

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 ...