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The physics behind ice skating: A tribological perspective
01.03.2021 Nikhil Kunapareddy

Ever wondered what makes ice so special to skate on it? Apart from freezing your favorite beverages, it helps make life adventurous. Yes, I am talking about sports like ice skating and ice hockey, it’s […]

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Bio Tribology
Unraveling the Secret Behind Nature’s Strongest Material
16.03.2020 TriboNet

Nacre, which is also known as mother-of-pearl, holds the reputation as the toughest material found in nature. Nacre is a composite organic-inorganic material produced as an inner shell layer in some mollusks. It is also […]

Laser Synthesis of Diamond
Advanced Materials
Carbon-Based Materials with Tunable Mechanical and Electronic Properties
17.02.2020 TriboNet

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 […]

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Advanced Materials
Tungsten Pentaboride Can Replace Diamonds for Drilling Purposes
13.01.2020 TriboNet

Often, when an individual hears the word diamond, a vision of love and an engagement ring is what first comes to mind. If the first picture is not an engagement ring, then it is typically […]

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Superhard carbon forms predicted – harder than diamond
04.11.2019 TriboNet

Superhard materials can cut, drill and clean other bodies. Besides, they hold potential for making scratch-safe coatings that could help guard costly equipment from damage. Science is finding a way to the development of new […]

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    02.05.2016
    Friction is a result of complex interaction of physical, chemical and mechanical forces at the sliding interface. Due to mentioned complexity, truly predictive models of friction are yet to be developed. As a result of [...]
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    What is this device?

    08.02.2021
    What if the bearings in the wheels of your future car/bicycle/motorbike was doing more than the normal bearing job? What if it could not only bear the load with minimum friction, but also insure other [...]
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    Physicists are one step closer to understand lubrication at nanoscale

    27.04.2020
    [avatar user=”Aydar Akchurin” size=”original” align=”left” link=”https://www.linkedin.com/in/aydar-akchurin/”] The article was written by Dr. Aydar Akchurin[/avatar] The famous picture of transportation of an Egyptian statue to the grave of Tehuti-Hetep, El-Bersheh indicates that the concept of lubrication [...]
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    Attend Tribology Gordon Research Conference (GRC) 2022

    13.05.2022
    Dear Colleagues: After being postponed due to COVID, the Tribology Gordon Research Conference (GRC) and Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) are back! They will both be held this summer at Bates College in Lewiston ME, USA. [...]
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    Relativistic Tribology, Tribo Plasma

    12.02.2016
    Gravitational waves were proved to exist, thus validating one more prediction by Albert Einstein and his general theory of relativity! Is there any relation between the relativity and Tribology? It looks like there is! “Micromechanisms [...]
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