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Sticky toe pads of lizards and evolution
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Atomistic Tribology
Discontinuous Shear Thickening
03.05.2021
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If you sometimes wander on youtube, you have probably already seen a video about experiments on cornstarch mixed with water. They were quite popular a few years ago. These videos show the surprising properties of […]
Bio Tribology
A New Load-Bearing Material Mimicking Human Cartilage Developed
26.04.2021
707 Views
Nature has created probably one of the most powerful optimization algorithms of the Universe – evolution by natural selection. Engineers like to borrow Nature’s ideas and there is even a special name for this activity […]
General Topics
Can full film occur when Lambda = 0.6?
12.04.2021
1,182 Views
The holy grail of tribologists studying lubricated systems is often to predict the contact lifespan. For this purpose, you can compute the minimum film thickness separating the two bodies… but only if you make the […]
General Topics
How to get cited!
06.04.2021
347 Views
After years of research, problem solving and brain storming the fact that a fellow researcher found your work helpful in his own research is so fulfilling. This makes citing one of the most important factors […]
Computational Tribology
Nanoscale friction on thin films
22.03.2021
1,179 Views
In nature ‘entities’, either be living or non-living tend to behave differently at different scales by exhibiting different properties. Which play a major role in the way we frame our perspectives and opinions on them. […]
General Topics
How to make greener ammonia with tribology?
15.03.2021
715 Views
A bit of context Ammonia synthesis is estimated to generate ~1% of the world CO2 emissions [2]. This single molecule is mass produced (~175 Mt) and the Haber-Bosch process employed is fossil fuel hungry! High […]
