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The friction force microscope (FFM) is a derivative of the atomic force microscope (AFM), which is optimized to measure the lateral forces that are acting between a sharp, nanoscopic tip and a surface during scanning of the tip. Ever since it was demonstrated that the frictional force can be measured at the atomic scale in 1987 by Mate et al. [1], this technique had a tremendous impact on understanding fundamental, molecular scale friction and lubrication processes and has been instrumental in defining the field of nanotribology.
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In basic physics textbooks, the frictional force F friction between two bodies in contact is typically described by the following phenomenological law of friction:
where F load represents the external loading force and μthe friction coefficient, which depends only on the actual combination of materials in contact. This equation is...
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Schirmeisen, A., Schwarz, U.D., Hölscher, H. (2015). Friction Force Microscopy. In: Bhushan, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Nanotechnology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6178-0_37-2
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