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Fundamentals of Friction and Wear on the Nanoscale

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This works seeks to summarize recent advances in experimental studying of triboluminescence—defined here as the light emission when a material is subjected to rubbing, scratching, rolling, impacting or other mechanical agitation—and elucidate the basic mechanisms whereby triboluminescence is excited.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported through the grants of the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness of Spain RYC-2009-0412, BIA2011-25653 and the project IPT-2012-1167-120000 with the participation of European Regional Development Fund (FEDER). One of the authors (R.N.) also acknowledges the contribution of the COST action TD1208.

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    Roman Nevshupa

  2. Chiba Institute of Technology, 2-17-1 Tsudanuma, Narashino-shi, Chiba, 275-8588, Japan

    Kenichi Hiratsuka

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Nevshupa, R., Hiratsuka, K. (2015). Triboluminescence. In: Gnecco, E., Meyer, E. (eds) Fundamentals of Friction and Wear on the Nanoscale. NanoScience and Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10560-4_4

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