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Creating a Robo-Dog Army: Tribological Aspects

02.09.2019 TriboNet

Recently Boston Dynamics’ released a video of a robo-dog army pulling a truck down the road. The future is here. For now it looks like the good old Terminator I movie. But I guess we […]

Hybrid Piezo-Electric Nanogenerator for Portable Electronics

11.10.2021

The push toward low powered, energy-saving devices has been a direction the electronics industry has always pursued. The switch to low powered LED lighting is a good example of this trend. Another avenue is the [...]
Physics of Contact and Adhesion with application to biological systems – ICTP Colloquium

30.08.2019

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. [...]
Estimation of functional properties of coatings by different tribological test methods

13.09.2021

By Dr. Ameneh Schneider – Optimol Instruments GmbH and Dr. Mathias Woydt – MATRILUB Introduction Interest in special coatings and thin films for tribological applications increased rapidly in the last few decades, especially driven by [...]
Origins of Sliding Friction

08.06.2020

Origin of sliding friction: role of lattice trapping [avatar user=”avinash” size=”original” align=”left” link=”https://www.linkedin.com/in/avinash-tiwari-91a0831b/”] The article was co-authored by Dr. Avinash Tiwari, Postdoctoral Researcher at Forschungszentrum Jülich. [/avatar] [avatar user=”[email protected]” size=”original” align=”left”] The article was co-authored [...]
Frictional healing: Prediction of potential earthquakes

21.06.2023

By Dr. Neil Canter, Contributing Editor | TLT Tech Beat June 2023 Frictional healing describes a time-dependent increase in asperity contact between rock surfaces at the micro- to nanoscopic scales. HIGHLIGHTS • Friction is an [...]