Skip to main content

Reset your password

Please enter the e-mail address you used to register to reset your password

Note: The verification e-mail to change your password should arrive immediately. However, in some cases it takes longer. Don't forget to check your spam folder.

If you haven't received the e-mail in 24 hours, please contact customerservices@ioppublishing.org

Registration complete

Thank you for registering with Physics World
If you'd like to change your details at any time, please visit My account

Close
Nanomaterials

Nanomaterials

Home » Materials » Nanomaterials » Friction at the nano-scale

Friction at the nano-scale

02 Feb 2005

Nanomachines will depend on our knowledge of friction, heat transfer and energy dissipation at the atomic level for their very survival.

Rough ride
In the scramble to revolutionize the world with nanotechnology we must not ignore friction. Nano-sca

You’ve reached the limit of what you can view on Physics World without registering

If you already have an account on Physics World, then please sign in to continue reading

If you do not yet have an account, please register so you can

  • Access more than 20 years of online content
  • Choose which e-mail newsletters you would like to receive

Jacqueline Krim is in the Department of Physics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, US, e-mail jkrim@unity.ncsu.edu
Back to Nanomaterials Nanomaterials

Read previous Einstein's random walk

Read next Probing the limits of the quantum world

Discover more from Physics World

Related jobs

Related events

Copyright © 2026 by IOP Publishing Ltd and individual contributors