Tribology, which studies surfaces in contact and relative motion, includes friction, wear, and lubrication, straddling across different fields: mechanical engineering, materials science, chemistry, nanoscience, physics. This short review restricts to the last two disciplines, with a qualitative survey of a small number of recent progress areas in the physics of nanofriction.
@article{arxiv.1712.06355,
title = {Current trends in the physics of nanoscale friction},
author = {N. Manini and G. Mistura and G. Paolicelli and E. Tosatti and A. Vanossi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.06355},
year = {2017}
}