Using a surface force apparatus, the authors observed the lubrication of a colloidal suspension using spherical and planar geometry on a nanometric scale. They have shown that the behaviour of the layer, and in particular the friction instabilities can be explained in terms of the compaction of adsorbed colloidal particles.
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Mazuyer et al. (1990) studied this question.
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