“…Another often-employed direct measurement technique is scanning electron microscopy (SEM). 37,83,87,112,113,172,181,182,212,226,232,330 Environmental scanning electron microscopy (ESEM) allows for higher chamber pressures, and so allows imaging of liquid systems including water. 338 This technique has been used to image lubricant in both randomly rough substrates and a regular array of micro-pillars, 37 see Fig.…”