This review summarizes recent advances in the area of tribology based on the outcome of a
Lorentz Center workshop surveying various physical, chemical and mechanical phenomena …

When two bodies are in contact, various surface/subsurface damage problems may arise,
which significantly shorten the service lives of functional components. These damage …

Roughness determines many functional properties of surfaces, such as adhesion, friction,
and (thermal and electrical) contact conductance. Recent analytical models and simulations …

Polymer adhesion is ubiquitous in both the natural world and human technology. It is also a
complex multiscale phenomenon, such that the solution of adhesion problems requires a …

This paper summarizes the submissions to a recently announced contact-mechanics
modeling challenge. The task was to solve a typical, albeit mathematically fully defined …

Challenges in quantifying how force affects bond formation have hindered the widespread
adoption of mechanochemistry. We used parallel tip-based methods to determine reaction …

In typical metallic contacts, stresses are very high and result in yielding of the material.
Therefore, the study of contacts which include simultaneous elastic and plastic deformation …

The past 20 years have witnessed simultaneous multidisciplinary explosions in
experimental techniques for synthesizing new materials, measuring and manipulating …

Surface roughness has a huge impact on many important phenomena. The most important
property of rough surfaces is the surface roughness power spectrum C (q). We present …

A general introduction to surface and interfacial forces, perfectly combining theoretical
concepts, experimental techniques and practical applications. In this completely updated …