H. Klein et al., TESTING THE FRICTIONAL-PROPERTIES OF MOO3 THIN-FILM SURFACE WITH AFM - A NANOSCOPIC LEVEL INVESTIGATION, Surface review and letters, 4(5), 1997, pp. 1031-1034
In this study we have realized alpha-MoO3 thin film synthesis, mainly
under the (110) orientation, and performed their frictional study usin
g an AFM to obtain values of friction coefficients mu. This technique
appears to be a good way for the investigation of the frictional prope
rties at the microscopic scale. Indeed we can mark the difference betw
een two crystalline states of MoO3 by their frictional properties.