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Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have moveed a
way to bring friction in mechanical systems by dint of rapidly oscillating
the width of a lubricant-filled gap separating pair sliding surfaces.
The technique retains the lubricant in a state of dynamic disorder,
preventing the formation of molecular layering that can increase friction.

"This is a novel way of controlling friction," says Dr Uzi Landman,
director of Georgia Tech's Center for Computational Materials Science.
"Through the use of small amplitude oscillations in the gap

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