Friction and Lubrication

• Klein, J., Kumacheva, E., Mahalu, D., Perahia D. and Fetters, L.J., 'Reduction of friction forces between solid surfaces bearing polymer brushes'
  Nature, 370, 634 - 636 (1994)
  
  
• Klein, J., Kumacheva, E., Perahia, D., Mahalu, D. and Warburg, S., 'Interfacial sliding of polymer-bearing surfaces'
  Faraday Discussions, 98, 173 - 188 (1994)
  
  
• Klein, J. and Kumacheva, E., 'Confinement-induced phase transitions in simple liquids'
  Science, 269, 816 - 819 (1995)
  
  
• Klein, J., 'Shear, friction and lubrication forces between polymer-bearing surfaces'
  Annual Reviews of Material Science, 26, 581 - 612 (1996)
  
  
• Kumacheva, E. and Klein, J., 'Simple liquids confined to molecularly thin layers. II: Shear and frictional behaviour of solidified films'
  J. Chem. Phys., 108, 7010 - 7022 (1998)
  
  
• Klein, J., 'Shear of liquid films confined to molecular dimensions'
  J. Non-Crystalline Solids, 235, 422 - 427 (1998)
  
  
• Klein, J., Kumacheva, E., Perahia, D. and Fetters, L.J., 'Shear forces between sliding surfaces coated with polymer brushes: the high friction regime'
  Acta Polymerica, 49, 613 - 621 (1998)
  
  
• Eiser, E., Klein, J., Witten, T.A. and Fetters, L.J. 'Shear of telechelic brushes' Phys. Rev. Letts. 82, 5076-5079 (1999)
  
  
• Klein, J., 'Entropic interactions: neutral and end-functionalised chains in confined geometries', J. of Physics: Condensed Matter, in press (2000)
  
  
  
• Klein, J., 'Mechanism of friction across molecularly confined films of simple liquids', 25th Leeds-Lyon Symposium on Lubrication at the Frontier; Editor: D. Dowson et al.; Elsevier (Amsterdam), in press (2000)
  
  
• Zhang, X., Wilhelm, M. Klein, J., Pfaadt, M. and Meijer, E.W., 'Modification of surface interactions and friction by adsorbed dendrimers: 1. Low surface-energy amino-acid-modified poly(propylene-imine) dendrimers' . Langmuir, in press (2000)
  
  
• Zhang, X., Klein, J., Sheiko, S.S., and Muzafarov, M.A., 'Modification of surface interactions and friction by adsorbed dendrimers: 2. High surface-energy OH-terminated carbosilane dendrimers'. Langmuir, in press (2000)
  

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