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Renewable Oils Developed by Scientists to Use in Lubricants

20.05.2019 tribonet 503 Views

Lubricants are used virtually in most machines. The refrigerator compressors, plane thrusters, engine gears, and wind turbines all depend on lubricants to work properly. There is a countless number of crucial agricultural equipment, transportation vessels, […]

Next-generation composites may monitor their own structural health

21.01.2019 322 Views

Carbon fiber composites—lightweight and strong—are great structural materials for automobiles, aircraft and other transportation vehicles. They consist of a polymer matrix, such as epoxy, into which reinforcing carbon fibers have been embedded. Because of differences [...]
Vanishing Friction

01.08.2017 906 Views

Illustration: Christine Daniloff/MIT and Alexei Bylinkskii A new technique tunes friction between two surfaces, to the point where friction can vanish. MIT researchers developed a frictional interface at the atomic level. The blue corrugated surface [...]
The Science of Friction on Graphene

12.08.2017 531 Views

Sliding on flexible graphene surfaces has been uncharted territory until now, Graphene, a two-dimensional form of carbon sheets just one atom thick, has been the subject of widespread research, in large part because of its [...]
Artificial gelatin-based skin model that simulates human skin almost perfectly

26.10.2017 1,774 Views

The characteristics of human skin are heavily dependent on the hydration of the tissue – in simple terms, the water content. This also changes its interaction with textiles. Up to now, it has only been [...]
Unmasking the Mechanism Behind Human Saliva Lubrication

13.04.2020 710 Views

Xerostomia, or dry mouth, is a condition in which the salivary glands found in the mouth do not produce enough saliva to keep the mouth wet. The condition of dry mouth often occurs as a [...]