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Quantitative Hardness Measurement by Instrumented AFM-indentation
Published on: November 22, 2016
Direct measurement of salt-mineral repulsion using atomic force microscopy
Andrea Hamilton1, Vasileios Koutsos, Christopher Hall
1School of Engineering and Centre for Materials Science & Engineering, The University of Edinburgh, The King's Buildings, Edinburgh, UK. andrea.hamilton@ed.ac.uk
Abstract:
The disjoining pressure between a mineral and soluble salt crystal in concentrated aqueous solution has been successfully measured with atomic force microscopy.

