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2D Materials Elastic Properties - AFM-Hertz Methodology

20.04.2016 Dr. Aydar Akchurin 509 Views

2D materials are single or only few atomic layer thick and posses unique properties with potential in many technological fields. They are highly anisotropic, having significantly different properties in-plane and perpendicular-to-the-plane. For example, graphene, […]

Measuring adhesion and friction of polymer nanofibers

04.01.2021 140 Views

Nanofibers are tiny fibers with diameters measured in the nanometer range. They can be generated by a variety of methods, from various different polymers, therefore they can exhibit different physical properties with different application potentials. [...]
Small Particles - Big Problems

27.06.2016 297 Views

Tiny particles are all over around us and sometimes they may create problems. This is especially of concern with metal particles formed due to wear in man-made engineering devices. Particles formed in car disk brakes [...]
Principles of Green Tribology

23.12.2019 641 Views

Peter Jost first used the term tribology in 1966 to describe the studies of science and technology that aim to understand how surfaces in relative motion to each other interact and the effects those interactions [...]
Study into the Rheology of Cats wins big at 2017 Ig Nobel Prize

02.11.2017 2,452 Views

From the brain’s responses to cheese aversion to the fluid dynamics of cats, WIRED picks its favourite Ig Nobel Prize winners for 2017 The winners of the 2017 Ig Nobel Prize, the science awards given [...]
High Hardness Boron Rich Boron Carbide is Synthesized using CVD

18.05.2020 391 Views

Hardness is a material’s resistance to plastic deformation and this property is widely used to rank materials for various engineering applications. Hard materials can be used for cutting, drilling. Hardness frequently correlates with wear resistance [...]