Fundamentals of Friction and Wear on the Nanoscale
This book provides an updated review on the development of scanning probe microscopy and related techniques, and the availability of computational techniques not even imaginable a few decades ago. The 36 chapters cover instrumental aspects, theo
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Enrico Gnecco Ernst Meyer Editors
Fundamentals of Friction and Wear on the Nanoscale Second Edition
NanoScience and Technology Series editors Phaedon Avouris, Yorktown Heights, USA Bharat Bhushan, Columbus, USA Dieter Bimberg, Berlin, Germany Klaus von Klitzing, Stuttgart, Germany Hiroyuki Sakaki, Tokyo, Japan Roland Wiesendanger, Hamburg, Germany
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Editors Enrico Gnecco Instituto Madrileño de Estudios Avanzados en Nanociencia Madrid Spain
Ernst Meyer Department of Physics University of Basel Basel Switzerland
This is a second edition. ISBN 1st ed.: 978-3-540-36806-9 ISSN 1434-4904 ISBN 978-3-319-10559-8 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-10560-4
ISSN 2197-7127 (electronic) ISBN 978-3-319-10560-4 (eBook)
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