nomenclature
glossary
abbreviations
part i surface roughness and hierarchical friction mechanisms
��1 introduction
����1.1 surfaces and surface free energy
����1.2 mesoscale
����1.3 hierarchy
����1.4 dissipation
����1.5 tribology
����1.6 biomimetics: from engineering to biology and back
��2 rough surface topography
����2.1 rough surface characterization
����2.2 statistical analysis of random surface roughness
����2.3 fractal surface roughness
����2.4 contact of rough solid surfaces
����2.5 surface modification
����2.5.1 surface texturing
����2.5.2 layer deposition
����2.6 summary
��3 mechanisms of dry friction, their scaling and linearproperties
����3.1 approaches to the multiscale nature of friction
����3.2 mechanisms of dry friction
����3.2.1 adhesive friction
����3.2.2 deformation of asperities
����3.2.5 ratchet and cobblestone mechanisms
����3.2.6 "third body" mechanism
����3.3 friction as a linear phenomenon
����3.3.1 friction, controlled by real area of contact
����3.3.2 friction controlled by average surface slope
����3.3.3 other explanations of the linearity of friction
����3.3.4 linearity and the "small parameter"
��4 friction as a nonlinear hierarchical phenomenon
����4.1 nonlinear effects in dry friction
����4.1.1 nonlinearity of the amontons-coulomb rule
����4.1.2 dynamic instabilities associated with thenonlinearity
����4.1.3 velocity-dependence and dynamic friction
����4.1.4 interdependence of the load-, size-, andvelocity-dependence of the coefficient of friction
����4.1.6 self-organized criticality
����4.3 heterogeneity, hierarchy and energy dissipation
����4.3.1 ideal vs. real contact situations
����4.3.2 measure oflnhomogeneity and dissipation at various
����4.3.3 order-parameter and mesoscopic functional
����4.3.4 kinetics of the atomic-scale friction
����4.4 mapping of friction at various hierarchy levels
part ii solid-liquid friction and superhydrophobicity
part iii biological and biomimetic surfaces
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