{"id":3927975,"date":"2026-09-16T09:00:33","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T14:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/heating-mica-to-200c-reveals-friction-independent-of-sliding-speed\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T09:00:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T14:00:33","slug":"heating-mica-to-200c-reveals-friction-independent-of-sliding-speed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/heating-mica-to-200c-reveals-friction-independent-of-sliding-speed\/","title":{"rendered":"Heating mica to 200\u00b0C reveals friction independent of sliding speed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Through joint research with the U.S. Geological Survey and the University of Tokyo, NIMS for the first time experimentally demonstrated friction completely independent of sliding velocity\u2014an ideal that had never been realized\u2014by heating mica, a layered oxide also used as a lubricant material, to 200\u00b0C (392\u00b0F). NIMS also clarified that this is caused by the disappearance of defects within crystals at high temperatures.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-09-mica-200c-reveals-friction-independent.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Through joint research with the U.S. Geological Survey and the University of Tokyo, NIMS for the first time experimentally demonstrated friction completely independent of sliding velocity\u2014an ideal that had never been realized\u2014by heating mica, a layered oxide also used as a lubricant material, to 200\u00b0C (392\u00b0F). NIMS also clarified that this is caused by the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3927975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-in-physics","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3927975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3927975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3927975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3927975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}