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Modern Applications of Tribology

16.07.2017 tribonet 1,408 Views

While Leonardo da Vinci commented on the effects of friction in the 1400s, it wasn’t until the mid-1960s that tribology was coined by Dr. H. Peter Jost and accepted as the term for the study […]

Surface a Key Element in Robotic Fingers

22.10.2018 776 Views

Picking up a pen off a desk and writing with it might seem easy to you, but it’s no small feat to a robot. For one thing, once you pick up the pen, you then [...]
Ice crystals formation is controlled by the surface texture - new study shows

18.05.2017 1,061 Views

WASHINGTON (May 17, 2017)—A new study examining how ice forms from pure water found that the geometry of the surface that water is on can have an effect on whether or not it freezes, suggesting [...]
Fight friction with plasma

03.05.2017 1,271 Views

For road vehicles, wind resistance increases fuel consumption. But one way to fight wind is with wind. Researchers in Sweden are experimenting with reducing drag on trucks with electric wind devices that mimic the way [...]
Carbon-Based Materials with Tunable Mechanical and Electronic Properties

17.02.2020 398 Views

When someone hears the word diamond the first thing that comes to mind is often something related to jewelry. However, diamonds are actually mostly used for industrial purposes: 75% of the world’s supply of natural [...]
Say “modeling” not “simulation”

24.07.2017 1,455 Views

Richard M. Stallman, founder and president of the Free Software Foundation and founding father of the GNU Project, has a long been repeating “say GNU, not Linux” although he has not had much success. In the same sense, from this corner [...]