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Sliding friction with polymer brushes

Rafael Tadmor1, Joanna Janik, Jacob Klein

  • 1Department of Materials and Interfaces, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel.

Physical Review Letters
|October 4, 2003
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