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Nanoscale friction

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In contrast to the ultralow friction that exists between carbon layers in multiwalled carbon nanotubes, multiwalled boron nitride nanotubes are found to exhibit ultrahigh interlayer friction as a result of their ionic character.

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Figure 1: Measurement of interlayer friction in multiwalled nanotubes.
Figure 2: Physical origin of the ultrahigh dissipative friction in boron nitride nanotubes.

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  1. Robert Szoszkiewicz is in the Department of Physics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas 66506, USA,

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  2. Elisa Riedo is in the School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0230, USA,

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Szoszkiewicz, R., Riedo, E. Sliding charges. Nature Mater 13, 666–668 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat4020

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