The Gasket & Seals Show 2025

Xavier Borras, PhD

January, 7 2025

Location

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Date

On 19.03.2025 to 20.03.2025

Xavier Borras, PhD

Industrial Engineer with focus on Tribology and Sealing Technology. Team player with an open-minded mentality author of several scientific publications and an industrial patent. Interested in Lean Management, Innovation, Circular Economy, Additive Manufacturing and Connected Objects Technology.

Triboelectric charges on HDPE are strain induced

08.09.2017

New research indicates how static electricity puts the charge in material, offering answer to centuries-old question For centuries, scientists have tried to understand triboelectric charging, commonly known as static electricity. Triboelectric charging causes toner from [...]
Amino acid based ‘green’ lubricants

13.12.2021

It is estimated that about 30% of world’s primary energy is consumed by excessive friction every year and about 60% of machines fail or stop for maintenance due to frictional damage. Above that, 50% of [...]
Tribological challenges in e-mobility

12.07.2021

Electric vehicle technology has been considered as one of the most important upcoming technologies in the present world. There is most definitely a crucial reason for this consideration and this is not solely relying on [...]
Tribology in Animal World: Dietary Habits of Lepidosauria Studied via Dental Microwear

07.10.2019

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 [...]
NASCAR Pile Up and Importance of Friction

29.07.2019

A real life examples to help explain the importance of tribology are priceless. Car races can provide an exciting example. A pile up at the 2019 Daytona NASCAR car race created an example the effect [...]

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Triboelectric charges on HDPE are strain induced

Amino acid based ‘green’ lubricants

Tribological challenges in e-mobility

Tribology in Animal World: Dietary Habits of Lepidosauria Studied via Dental Microwear

NASCAR Pile Up and Importance of Friction