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An Engineered Salvinia-like Slippery Surface

01.02.2021 tribonet 307 Views

The surface properties of materials are often critical because they dictate how they react with their external environment. An important property currently under intense investigation is how surfaces interact with liquids like water. In a […]

Argonne Embraces Concept of "in operando" Formation of Carbon-based Tribofilms

23.08.2016 471 Views

Earlier this month, tribologists and physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory published news of their (self-described) “self-healing diamond-like carbon coating [that] could revolutionize lubrication” in the journal Nature. The researchers [...]
Carbon-Based Materials with Tunable Mechanical and Electronic Properties

17.02.2020 398 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 1,356 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 [...]
Early Mechanical Behaviors and Origins of Earthquakes

23.03.2020 4,514 Views

Hadrien Rattez, a research scientist in civil and environmental engineering at Duke University and Manolis Veveakis, an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at Duke University, have joined forces to create a model, which [...]
Super-ballistic electron flow confirmed

01.12.2017 1,227 Views

Behaving like particles in a viscous fluid can help bunches of electrons squeeze through a tight space. When many people try to squeeze through a passageway at the same time, it creates a bottleneck that [...]