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An Open Access Tribology journal is launched

14.05.2018 tribonet 615 Views

Chief Editors Professor Valentin Popov and Dr. Roman Pohrt will foster multidisciplinary knowledge exchanges on tribology — a subject integral to any system with moving parts. Tribology — the study of friction and wear — […]

Harvesting friction energy in self-sustaining water motion sensors

12.05.2017 3,223 Views

A recent study, affiliated with UNIST has engineered a self-sustaining sensor platform to continuously monitor the surrounding environment without having an external power source. This research has been led by the team of Professor Jaehyouk [...]
How does roughness impact your EHD contact?

08.03.2021 642 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 [...]
Grab things like a Gecko: a new gripping system

22.05.2017 4,916 Views

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems have developed a soft gripping system that uses differential air pressure and a gecko-inspired adhesive for exceptional bonding to three-dimensional objects. The findings [...]
Graphene vs. MoS2: Which One Has Lower Friction?

26.08.2019 2,205 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 [...]
Golden Age of Tribology?

29.11.2018 1,496 Views

Recently, a paper titled “Is Tribology Approaching Its Golden Age? Grand Challenges in Engineering Education and Tribological Research” appeared in Frontiers | Tribology journal. The author, Valentin Popov, Professor at TU Berlin, puts forward and [...]