Miru Lee

1 Introduction Controlling friction at a sliding contact has been a long-standing challenge in technology and society. A large fraction of the energy that society consumes is lost in frictional dissipation,[1] but at the same time, friction is essential to traction and mechanical control. Ideally, ways will be found to turn friction off when it is not needed and to turn it on when forces need to be imparted on the object.

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