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Reformulating Lubricating Oils to Improve Engine Performance

14.07.2019 tribonet

Reformulating lubricating oils for the internal combustion engine could result in an improvement in the life of the oil and engine itself, according to a recent article by Dr. Pranesh Aswath. Dr. Aswath and colleagues […]

Surface a Key Element in Robotic Fingers

22.10.2018

Picking up a pen off a desk and writing with it might seem easy to you, but it’s no small feat to a robot. For one thing, once you pick up the pen, you then [...]
Tribometer managing autumn leaf problem on railways worldwide

25.02.2019

Since the 1800s, railway organizations have been struggling with low adhesion on the rail, especially during the Autumn season also known as the “slippery track season”. In Autumn, leaves fall on the rails and when [...]
Nanoscale friction on thin films

22.03.2021

In nature ‘entities’, either be living or non-living tend to behave differently at different scales by exhibiting different properties. Which play a major role in the way we frame our perspectives and opinions on them. [...]
Close Examination of Frictional Wear on an Atomic Scale

12.10.2020

Friction and wear have long been a focus of scientists, researchers, engineers, and industries around the world. The common goal is to maximize profits, however, the environmental impact becomes even more important. Wear and friction [...]
How do phonons lead to frictional energy dissipation?

18.12.2019

Friction is often associated with the generation of vibrations in the solids that are sliding over each other. Mathematically, these vibrations are described by the phonons in the two solids, the vibrational eigenmodes. Here, we [...]

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