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What Makes Even the Sharpest Razors to Become Dull When Shaving

07.12.2020 Dr. Aydar Akchurin 723 Views

We rely on sharp blades in our daily lives for domestic purposes, medical use, the food and catering sector, agricultural and industrial applications and everything in between. There are no corners of our society that […]

High Hardness Boron Rich Boron Carbide is Synthesized using CVD

18.05.2020 399 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 [...]
How does roughness impact your EHD contact?

08.03.2021 642 Views

A bit of context Let’s say you want to design a new car but that you are a new car manufacturer. You can’t really step back and look at your previous experiences, so everything [...]
Environmentally friendly oleophobic coating for your clothes

05.05.2017 2,844 Views

When you spill pasta sauce on your favorite shirt but there is no trace of it after being washed, you can thank oleophobicity, a resistance to oil commonly applied to textiles. That resistance, however, comes [...]
Molecular Dynamic Simulations and AFM Experiments at Overlapping Speeds

11.04.2016 387 Views

Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) is a powerful and convenient experimental measurement device in the field of nano-scale tribology. It was successfully applied to explore superlubricity in a graphene-gold interface and superlubricity due to repulsive van [...]
Friction Velocity Dependence - Breaking Friction Laws

06.03.2017 1,535 Views

Controlling friction is one of the main goals in modern tribology. Due to complexity of the tribological processes, up to date the problem remains mainly unsolved. While classical tribology relies on the famous friction laws, [...]