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Superlubricity of carbon nanotubes as a prerequisite for mechanically activated ionic transport

31.08.2020 tribonet 319 Views

The field of nanofluidics is the study of the behavior, control and manipulation of fluids that are confined in extremely small structures. The dimensions of these minute structures typically range from 1 nanometer to 100 […]

2D Materials Elastic Properties - AFM-Hertz Methodology

20.04.2016 472 Views

2D materials are single or only few atomic layer thick and posses unique properties with potential in many technological fields. They are highly anisotropic, having significantly different properties in-plane and perpendicular-to-the-plane. For example, graphene, [...]
Contact Mechanics Book

06.03.2018 318 Views

The Handbook on Contact Mechanics (Handbuch der Kontaktmechanik) co-authored by Honorary Professor of Tomsk Polytechnic University, head of the Department of System Dynamics and Friction Physics at Technical University Berlin, Valentin Popov, a TPU alumnus [...]
Hysteresis in Friction of Graphene

02.05.2016 551 Views

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 [...]
Some open problems in adhesion (of rough surfaces)

30.01.2018 684 Views

By M.Ciavarella, A. Papangelo. Politecnico di BARI, Italy. Adhesion for ‘‘soft’’ bodies shows instabilities like in the simple case of a single sinusoid even in the so called JKR regime (Johnson 1995) which leads to [...]
'Space Fabric' Links Fashion and Engineering

11.07.2017 1,447 Views

Raul Polit Casillas grew up around fabrics. His mother is a fashion designer in Spain, and, at a young age, he was intrigued by how materials are used for design. Now, as a systems engineer [...]