Researchers have uncovered friction without contact—driven entirely by magnetic interactions. As two magnetic layers slide, ...
Researchers at the University of Konstanz have uncovered a new mechanism of sliding friction: resistance to motion that ...
Friction plays a key role in how ruptures unzip faults in the Earth’s crust and release waves that cause destructive shaking. Yet dynamic friction evolution is one of the biggest uncertainties in ...
(Nanowerk News) An interdisciplinary research team of the Institutes of Physical Chemistry and Physics of the University of Freiburg and the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics in Frankfurt-am-Main has ...