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Carbon-Based Materials with Tunable Mechanical and Electronic Properties

17.02.2020 tribonet 403 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 […]

Hard, but highly elastic form of carbon developed

14.06.2017 tribonet 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 […]

20th International Sealing Conference Review

15.10.2018 746 Views

This week the 20th edition of the biannual International Sealing Conference (ISC) took place in Stuttgart. Around 200 assistants showed up to the 2-days sealing conference. Well-known companies such as Bosch, SKF, Trelleborg, Parker, Shell, [...]
How to better predict the minimum film thickness of elastohydrodynamic contacts?

11.01.2021 816 Views

Let’s say you have the choice between an almost infinite lifespan device, and a device that undergoes wear and failure within a few minutes or hours of running. In most cases, you would choose the [...]
Greasy Fingerprints Issue Solved with Nanocoating

28.10.2019 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 [...]
How does roughness impact your EHD contact?

08.03.2021 640 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 [...]
EHLA Protects Brake Discs

16.12.2019 668 Views

Brake discs are traditionally made with gray cast iron with lamellar graphite phases. The advantages are discs with good thermal conductivity, high thermal capacity, made at a relatively low cost. The disadvantage is that as [...]