Researchers have uncovered friction without contact—driven entirely by magnetic interactions. As two magnetic layers slide, ...

When load increases steadily, so does friction, but in the realm of magnetization dynamics, things aren’t so simple.

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Researchers found friction can occur without contact, driven by magnetic dynamics, and does not always increase with load. The effect could enable controllable, wear-free technologies.

Researchers at the University of Konstanz have uncovered a new mechanism of sliding friction: resistance to motion that ...

I'll be honest—friction is pretty complicated. Imagine that I have a block of wood sliding on a table. In some way, the atoms on the surface of the wood block are interacting with the surface atoms on ...

The familiar heat, wear and general grinding to a halt of friction are all caused by what's going on at the microscopic level when two things rub. And down there, even the smoothest surfaces usually ...