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Nature Materials 8, 857 - 858 (2009)
doi:10.1038/nmat2553

Carbon nanotubes: Not that slippery

Ruben Perez1

  1. Ruben Perez is in the Departamento de Física Teórica de la Materia Condensada, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, E-28049 Madrid, Spain.
    e-mail: ruben.perez@uam.es

Friction measurements on carbon nanotubes show a remarkable anisotropy, the origin of which can be traced to the activation of specific deformation modes of energy dissipation.

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