Lubricant films confined in nanometric slit pores and subjected to shear flow are studied by non-equilibrium molecular dynamics in a planar Couette flow geometry. An inhomogeneous, layered density profile is developed near the confining surfaces and the shape of the velocity profile across the pore depends on the wall energetics. A nonlinear velocity profile is developed and both slippage locat...

Using Brownian force profile reconstruction (BFPR), we measured the solvent structure force profile of interfacial 1-nonanol between graphite and methyl terminated alkane thiol SAM surfaces. BFPR harnesses the thermal motion of the cantilever to accurately and precisely reconstruct force profiles that may be stiffer than the intrinsic cantilever stiffness. Novel methods to compensate instrument...