Sonoma State University
February 22, 2005

Novel Friction Properties of Quasicrystals

Dr. Jeong Park
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Darwin 103
3:00 PM

Dr. Jeong Park of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory will describe the nanomechanical properties of quasicrystals probed with a scanning probe microscope, and discuss how their low friction is correlated with their exotic atomic structure.