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Bio Tribology
Unmasking the Mechanism Behind Human Saliva Lubrication
13.04.2020 TriboNet

Xerostomia, or dry mouth, is a condition in which the salivary glands found in the mouth do not produce enough saliva to keep the mouth wet. The condition of dry mouth often occurs as a […]

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Early Mechanical Behaviors and Origins of Earthquakes
23.03.2020 TriboNet

Hadrien Rattez, a research scientist in civil and environmental engineering at Duke University and Manolis Veveakis, an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at Duke University, have joined forces to create a model, which […]

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Bio Tribology
Unraveling the Secret Behind Nature’s Strongest Material
16.03.2020 TriboNet

Nacre, which is also known as mother-of-pearl, holds the reputation as the toughest material found in nature. Nacre is a composite organic-inorganic material produced as an inner shell layer in some mollusks. It is also […]

dental wear of herbivores
Bio Tribology
Examining Wear on the Teeth of Herbivores
09.03.2020 TriboNet

Individuals who deal with the health of animals on a regular basis are keenly interested in understanding the wear processes that affect the teeth of herbivores. Understanding these wear processes will potentially lead to the […]

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Bio Tribology
High Friction Makes the Wine Dry?
02.03.2020 TriboNet

Wine tasting has been elevated to an art form. The experts describe wine tasting as involving four sensory characteristics. The first sense (and most obvious) is taste. When tasting wine, you pay attention to the […]

Fatigue testing of cells
Bio Tribology
New method reveals how damage occurs in human biological cells due to mechanical fatigue
18.11.2019 TriboNet

Human red cells (RBCs) are very versatile and have the ability to experience cell deformation as they move around different small vessels and capillaries. Their average life time is around 120 days and during this […]

Microscopic images of the tooth enamel of lepidosauria
Bio Tribology
Tribology in Animal World: Dietary Habits of Lepidosauria Studied via Dental Microwear
07.10.2019 TriboNet

Scientists from the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz are studying the tooth enamel surface of lepidosauria. Lepidosauria are reptiles with overlapping scales and include approximately 7150 species of lizards, snakes, tuatara and amphisbaenians (worm lizards). The […]

Adhesion of Rough Solids
Bio Tribology
Physics of Contact and Adhesion with application to biological systems – ICTP Colloquium
30.08.2019 TriboNet

A talk by Professor Bo Persson on contact mechanics and adhesion in biological systems. Abstract: One of the weakest forces in nature is the van der Waals interaction which acts between all atoms and solids. […]

Strongest bio-based material
Atomistic Tribology
Bio-based material stronger than steel and spider silk altogether
16.05.2018 TriboNet

Researchers at KTH have produced a bio-based material that is reported to surpass the strength of all known bio-based materials whether fabricated or natural, including wood and spider silk. Working with cellulose nanofibre (CNF), the […]

cartilage
Bio Tribology
Cartilage tribology: Slip sliding away
22.01.2018 TriboNet

Research sheds light on friction, lubrication and wear in cartilage 11:25 a.m., Aug. 24, 2015–Osteoarthritis, which affects some 27 million people in the U.S. alone, occurs when the protective cartilage on the ends of bones […]

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    30.01.2018
    By M.Ciavarella, A. Papangelo. Politecnico di BARI, Italy. Adhesion for ‘‘soft’’ bodies shows instabilities like in the simple case of a single sinusoid even in the so called JKR regime (Johnson 1995) which leads to [...]
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    Earlier this month, tribologists and physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory published news of their (self-described) “self-healing diamond-like carbon coating [that] could revolutionize lubrication” in the journal Nature.  The researchers [...]
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