Friction, lubrication, adhesion, and wear are prevalent physical phenomena in everyday life and in many key technologies. This book incorporates a bottom-up approach to friction, lubrication, and wear into a versatile textbook on tribology. This is done by focusing on how these tribological phenomena occur on the small scale -- the atomic to the micrometer scale -- a field often called
nanotribology. The book covers the microscopic origins of the common tribological concepts of roughness, elasticity, plasticity, friction coefficients, and wear coefficients. Some macroscale concepts (like elasticity) scale down well to the micro- and atomic-scale, while other macroscale concepts (like hydrodynamic lubrication) do not. In addition, this book also has chapters on topics not typically found in tribology texts: surface energy, surface forces, lubrication in confined spaces, and the atomistic origins of friction and wear. These chapters cover tribological concepts that become increasingly important at the small scale: capillary condensation, disjoining pressure, contact electrification, molecular slippage at interfaces, atomic scale stick-slip, and atomic bond breaking.
Throughout the book, numerous examples are provided that show how a nanoscale understanding of tribological phenomena is essential to the proper engineering of important modern technologies such as MEMS, disk drives, and nanoimprinting. For the second edition, all the chapters have been revised and updated to incorporate the most recent advancements in nanoscale tribology. Another important enhancement to the second edition is the addition of problem sets at the end of each chapter.
摩擦、潤滑、黏附和磨損是日常生活中以及許多關鍵技術中普遍存在的物理現象。本書採用自下而上的方法，將摩擦、潤滑和磨損的概念融入一部多功能的摩擦學教科書中。這是通過專注於這些摩擦學現象在小尺度上（從原子到微米尺度）如何發生來實現的，這一領域通常被稱為奈米摩擦學。本書涵蓋了常見摩擦學概念的微觀起源，包括粗糙度、彈性、塑性、摩擦係數和磨損係數。一些宏觀概念（如彈性）能夠很好地縮小到微觀和原子尺度，而其他宏觀概念（如流體潤滑）則無法如此。此外，本書還包含一些在摩擦學文本中不常見的主題章節：表面能、表面力、受限空間中的潤滑，以及摩擦和磨損的原子起源。這些章節涵蓋了在小尺度上變得越來越重要的摩擦學概念：毛細凝結、去佔壓力、接觸電化、界面上的分子滑移、原子尺度的粘滑現象以及原子鍵的斷裂。
在整本書中，提供了許多示例，顯示出對摩擦學現象的奈米尺度理解對於正確工程設計重要現代技術（如MEMS、磁碟驅動器和奈米印刷）的必要性。第二版中，所有章節均已修訂和更新，以納入奈米尺度摩擦學的最新進展。第二版的另一個重要增強是每章末尾新增了習題集。
C. Mathew Mate,
Visiting Scholar, Chemical Engineering Department, Stanford University, Robert W. Carpick,
John Henry Towne Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania Mathew Mate is currently a Visiting Scholar at the Chemical Engineering Department at Stanford University. Prior to that, he work for 30 years in industry for IBM, Hitachi, and Western Digital. He is best known for his research into the molecular and atomic levels and origins of tribology (the study of friction, lubrication, and wear). He has also been extensively involved in improving disk drive tribology. In recognition of his pioneering contributions to the field of tribology, he was awarded the 2001 MRS Medal from the Materials Research Society and the 2012 International Award from the Society of Tribology and Lubrication Engineers.
Robert Carpick, John Henry Towne Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics at the University of Pennsylvania, studies nanotribology, nanomechanics, and scanning probes. He has received numerous awards include a NSF CAREER Award and the ASME Newkirk Award, and is a fellow of numerous societies, including the American Physical Society and the Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers. He has authored 6 patents and over 170 peer-reviewed publications. Previously, he was a faculty member at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received his B.Sc. (University of Toronto) and his Ph.D. (University of California at Berkeley) both in Physics, and was a postdoc at Sandia National Laboratory.
C. Mathew Mate，史丹佛大學化學工程系訪問學者，Robert W. Carpick，賓夕法尼亞大學機械工程與應用力學系約翰·亨利·湯恩教授
Mathew Mate目前是史丹佛大學化學工程系的訪問學者。在此之前，他在IBM、日立和西部數據公司工作了30年。他以對摩擦學（研究摩擦、潤滑和磨損的學科）分子和原子層面及其起源的研究而聞名。他還廣泛參與改善磁碟驅動器的摩擦學。因其在摩擦學領域的開創性貢獻，他於2001年獲得材料研究學會的MRS獎章，並於2012年獲得摩擦學與潤滑工程學會的國際獎。
Robert Carpick是賓夕法尼亞大學機械工程與應用力學系的約翰·亨利·湯恩教授，研究領域包括納米摩擦學、納米力學和掃描探針。他獲得了多項獎項，包括NSF CAREER獎和ASME Newkirk獎，並且是多個學會的會士，包括美國物理學會和摩擦學與潤滑工程學會。他擁有6項專利和超過170篇經過同行評審的出版物。之前，他是威斯康辛大學麥迪遜分校的教職員。他在多倫多大學獲得物理學學士學位，並在加州大學伯克利分校獲得物理學博士學位，並曾在桑迪亞國家實驗室擔任博士後研究員。
