“…These new techniques have been evolved towards both enhancement of their features and integration with other techniques. Combination of mechanical , physical and chemical characterization [4] has offered the opportunity to study complex processes of gas-phase lubrication [10], mechanically stimulated gas emission [4,[11][12][13], triboplasma [14][15][16], triboelectrification [17], triboluminescence [15,16,18], emission of charged particles [19,20], tribochemical reactions [21][22][23][24][25], and so on. On the other hand, nanoindentation has become widespread as a method to study the mechanical response of materials [26], particularly the measurement of hardness [27,28], elastic modulus [27,28], hardening exponents [29], creep parameters [30], and residual stresses [31].…”