Pith Number

pith:VRMGL4VC

pith:2016:VRMGL4VCLFQQPGN6YQ7DJWYMH2

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A nanostructured surface increases friction exponentially at the solid-gas interface

Arindam Phani, J.E. Hawk, Kovur Prashanthi, Thomas Thundat, Vakhtang Putkaradze

arxiv:1606.01406 v2 · 2016-06-04 · physics.chem-ph · cond-mat.mes-hall · physics.flu-dyn

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VRMGL4VCLFQQPGN6YQ7DJWYMH2}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T01:03:26.331715Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ac5865f2a259610799bec43e34db0c3eaff1f866c79f0c3778fd7948fc4b5375

Aliases

arxiv: 1606.01406 · arxiv_version: 1606.01406v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1606.01406 · pith_short_12: VRMGL4VCLFQQ · pith_short_16: VRMGL4VCLFQQPGN6 · pith_short_8: VRMGL4VC

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VRMGL4VCLFQQPGN6YQ7DJWYMH2 \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: ac5865f2a259610799bec43e34db0c3eaff1f866c79f0c3778fd7948fc4b5375

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "98c7d9147907301efbb89366a5e1dca462b59a19a1bb402749b0024167cec393",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cond-mat.mes-hall",
      "physics.flu-dyn"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.chem-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-06-04T18:44:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5466a29f0a3678335c1ef99f9f3d0213f8913aa07451db5cc651fbbc0080aef9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1606.01406",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}