KAWAGUCHI, TAKAAKI; MATSUKAWA, HIROSHI - In: Surface Review and Letters (SRL) 13 (2006) 02, pp. 235-240
Nanoscale frictional phenomena at solid–solid surfaces with lubricants are studied numerically using a lattice model which consists of two rigid substrates and a monolayer of lubricant molecules. The maximum static frictional force, which works on the driven upper solid, is always finite and...