Where the Rubber Meets the Road

Friday, May 15, 2015 - 12:00 in Physics & Chemistry

Bo Persson, a scientist at the Julich Research Center in Germany, and his colleagues have now uncovered new velocity and temperature-dependent properties of rubber friction on asphalt -- bolstering the idea that an important component of friction originates when chains of rubber molecules repeatedly stick to the road, stretch, and then release.

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