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A New Way to Understand Friction

21.09.2020 tribonet 966 Views

Friction is a part of everyday life. Most of us do not think about friction at all, except perhaps when we are trying to push something heavy along the floor, cursing the friction that it […]

Physicists are one step closer to understand lubrication at nanoscale

27.04.2020 992 Views

The famous picture of transportation of an Egyptian statue to the grave of Tehuti-Hetep, El-Bersheh indicates that the concept of lubrication was already known to ancient Egyptians. The picture below shows how the slaves are [...]
Argonne Embraces Concept of "in operando" Formation of Carbon-based Tribofilms

23.08.2016 477 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 [...]
Tribology Trends and Challenges in Electric Vehicles: Short Summary

14.09.2020 1,082 Views

Electric vehicles, while often considered a new phenomenon, have existed since the 1800s. At that point in time, electric vehicles outnumbered gasoline powered vehicles for many reasons. Electric vehicles did not have the same vibration, [...]
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Sediments Act As Lubricants for Plate Tectonics

09.09.2019 426 Views

Plate tectonics explains the features and movement of the Earth’s surface both in the present and in the past. It is the theory that the outer shell of Earth is divided into many plates (including [...]
Friction is a possible reason for SpaceX Falcon 9 explosion

08.01.2017 1,303 Views

September 1 of 2016 at Cape Canaveral SpaceX lost is Falcon 9 rocket on a launch pad due to dramatic explosion. During a routine preflight fueling test, the rocket and the $200 million Israeli Earth [...]