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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.