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Introduction to Sealing Technology

18.01.2021 F. Xavier Borras 734 Views

Let’s start from the beginning: what is a seal? A device or material that is used to close off or fasten an opening or connection, especially to prevent the escape of a liquid or gas. […]

20th International Sealing Conference Review

15.10.2018 F. Xavier Borras 748 Views

This week the 20th edition of the biannual International Sealing Conference (ISC) took place in Stuttgart. Around 200 assistants showed up to the 2-days sealing conference. Well-known companies such as Bosch, SKF, Trelleborg, Parker, Shell, […]

Green sealing: 17th EDF-PPRIME Workshop Review

05.10.2018 F. Xavier Borras 456 Views

Every second year the EDF-PPRIME Workshop is dedicated to sealing technology. This week the 17th edition of this event was held at the EDF Lab Paris-Saclay focusing on minimizing both leakage and friction of rotary […]

Triboelectricity to power your watch

09.05.2017 1,326 Views

Despite the many advances in portable electronic devices, one thing remains constant: the need to plug them into a wall socket to recharge. Now researchers, reporting in the journal ACS Nano, have developed a light-weight, [...]
Modern Applications of Tribology

16.07.2017 1,487 Views

While Leonardo da Vinci commented on the effects of friction in the 1400s, it wasn’t until the mid-1960s that tribology was coined by Dr. H. Peter Jost and accepted as the term for the study [...]
Does Friction cause Friction Blisters?

25.07.2017 1,066 Views

What is friction? There is more than one definition of friction. And this has confused our understanding of how it is involved in friction blister formation. The Merriam-Webster Dictionary has two definitions of friction: the act of [...]
Superlubricity of carbon nanotubes as a prerequisite for mechanically activated ionic transport

31.08.2020 332 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 [...]
Brasenia schreberi mucilage - superlubric biological liquid

21.03.2016 427 Views

Superlubricity is a state of low friction, broadly defined as the state with the coefficient of friction lower than 0.01. This level is not achievable with classical lubrication mechanisms and currently other methods are being [...]