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Greasy Fingerprints Issue Solved with Nanocoating

28.10.2019 tribonet 469 Views

You walk into your newly renovated kitchen to admire your brand new, top of the line stainless steel appliances. What? Are those fingerprint smudges on the refrigerator!? Trying to remove those smudges is not an […]

Simulation reveals previously unknown friction mechanisms of diamond at the molecular level

21.09.2017 1,649 Views

Diamond coatings are commonly used today to protect tools and machine components that are subjected to high wear, and thus to extend their service life. It is known that rubbing two dry diamond surfaces together [...]
Programmable Friction: Electrical Regulation of Ionic Liquid Lubrication

23.11.2020 501 Views

Friction is a force rising between two surfaces when they move in opposite directions or when one moves over a stationary surface. The scale of the movement does not matter: from the movement of continental [...]
Graphene vs. MoS2: Which One Has Lower Friction?

26.08.2019 2,197 Views

Two-dimensional (2D) materials, layered structures having atomic- to nano-scale thickness, have shown unique physical properties such as high in-plane stiffness combined with extremely low out of plane bending rigidity. 2D materials have been used in [...]
Employing machine learning to create wear and corrosion resistant metallic glass

23.04.2018 1,119 Views

If you combine two or three metals together, you will get an alloy that usually looks and acts like a metal, with its atoms arranged in rigid geometric patterns. But once in a while, under [...]
In Situ Generation of Graphene

25.07.2016 378 Views

Graphene has unique properties and is being extensively used in various applications. It got a deserved attention in the field of tribology as well and was reported to lead to the states of superlubricity (see [...]