| Frictional characteristics of atomically thin sheets C Lee, Q Li, W Kalb, XZ Liu, H Berger, RW Carpick, J Hone science 328 (5974), 76-80, 2010 | 1971 | 2010 |
| Scratching the surface: fundamental investigations of tribology with atomic force microscopy RW Carpick, M Salmeron Chemical reviews 97 (4), 1163-1194, 1997 | 1468 | 1997 |
| Calibration of frictional forces in atomic force microscopy DF Ogletree, RW Carpick, M Salmeron Review of Scientific Instruments 67 (9), 3298-3306, 1996 | 773 | 1996 |
| A general equation for fitting contact area and friction vs load measurements RW Carpick, DF Ogletree, M Salmeron Journal of colloid and interface science 211 (2), 395-400, 1999 | 596 | 1999 |
| Recent advances in single-asperity nanotribology I Szlufarska, M Chandross, RW Carpick Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics 41 (12), 123001, 2008 | 561 | 2008 |
| Mechanisms of antiwear tribofilm growth revealed in situ by single-asperity sliding contacts NN Gosvami, JA Bares, F Mangolini, AR Konicek, DG Yablon, ... Science 348 (6230), 102-106, 2015 | 544 | 2015 |
| Lateral stiffness: a new nanomechanical measurement for the determination of shear strengths with friction force microscopy RW Carpick, DF Ogletree, M Salmeron Applied Physics Letters 70 (12), 1548-1550, 1997 | 530 | 1997 |
| The evolving quality of frictional contact with graphene S Li, Q Li, RW Carpick, P Gumbsch, XZ Liu, X Ding, J Sun, J Li Nature 539 (7630), 541-545, 2016 | 493 | 2016 |
| Elastic and frictional properties of graphene C Lee, X Wei, Q Li, R Carpick, JW Kysar, J Hone physica status solidi (b) 246 (11‐12), 2562-2567, 2009 | 470 | 2009 |
| Measurement of interfacial shear (friction) with an ultrahigh vacuum atomic force microscope RW Carpick, N Agrait, DF Ogletree, M Salmeron Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B: Microelectronics and Nanometer …, 1996 | 396 | 1996 |
| Polydiacetylene films: a review of recent investigations into chromogenic transitions and nanomechanical properties RW Carpick, DY Sasaki, MS Marcus, MA Eriksson, AR Burns Journal of Physics: condensed matter 16 (23), R679, 2004 | 374 | 2004 |
| Variation of the interfacial shear strength and adhesion of a nanometer-sized contact RW Carpick, N Agrait, DF Ogletree, M Salmeron Langmuir 12 (13), 3334-3340, 1996 | 361 | 1996 |
| Nanoscale wear as a stress-assisted chemical reaction TDB Jacobs, RW Carpick Nature nanotechnology 8 (2), 108-112, 2013 | 357 | 2013 |
| Frictional ageing from interfacial bonding and the origins of rate and state friction Q Li, TE Tullis, D Goldsby, RW Carpick Nature 480 (7376), 233-236, 2011 | 329 | 2011 |
| Structure-property relationships from universal signatures of plasticity in disordered solids ED Cubuk, RJS Ivancic, SS Schoenholz, DJ Strickland, A Basu, ... Science 358 (6366), 1033-1037, 2017 | 296 | 2017 |
| Accounting for the JKR–DMT transition in adhesion and friction measurements with atomic force microscopy DS Grierson, EE Flater, RW Carpick Journal of adhesion science and technology 19 (3-5), 291-311, 2005 | 294 | 2005 |
| Origin of ultralow friction and wear in ultrananocrystalline diamond AR Konicek, DS Grierson, P Gilbert, WG Sawyer, AV Sumant, RW Carpick Physical review letters 100 (23), 235502, 2008 | 269 | 2008 |
| Ultralow nanoscale wear through atom-by-atom attrition in silicon-containing diamond-like carbon H Bhaskaran, B Gotsmann, A Sebastian, U Drechsler, MA Lantz, ... Nature nanotechnology 5 (3), 181-185, 2010 | 267 | 2010 |
| Substrate effect on thickness‐dependent friction on graphene Q Li, C Lee, RW Carpick, J Hone physica status solidi (b) 247 (11‐12), 2909-2914, 2010 | 261 | 2010 |
| Lateral force calibration in atomic force microscopy: A new lateral force calibration method and general guidelines for optimization RJ Cannara, M Eglin, RW Carpick Review of Scientific Instruments 77 (5), 2006 | 259 | 2006 |