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Environmentally friendly oleophobic coating for your clothes

05.05.2017 tribonet 2,842 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 […]

Radiation Can Slow Corrosion

26.10.2020 564 Views

Radiation is well known to cause an increase of corrosion in the materials it comes into contact with. The increase in the corrosion rate leads to machines and equipment becoming inefficient more quickly, and components [...]
Hard, but highly elastic form of carbon developed

14.06.2017 1,362 Views

Washington, DC— A team including several Carnegie scientists has developed a form of ultrastrong, lightweight carbon that is also elastic and electrically conductive. A material with such a unique combination of properties could serve a [...]
Reduce the Friction with Graphene Balls

21.02.2016 483 Views

Tiny, sub-micron sized particles are frequently used as additives in the lubricants to improve their frictional and wear behavior. These particles, due to their size, can enter the contact and protect the surfaces from the [...]
Mechano-chemical wear and tribofilm thickness simulation

29.03.2016 483 Views

When the conditions in the tribosystem are such that the lubricant is not capable of carrying any significant part of the applied load, most of the load is carried by the direct contact of the [...]
Phase-Switching Liquids Frost 300 Times Longer Compared to Known Anti-Icing Coatings

08.04.2019 202 Views

Ice and frost formation on surfaces afflicts various energy and transportation industries worldwide, causing economic losses in billions of dollars annually. Most techniques to prevent frost and ice formation on surfaces rely heavily on heating [...]