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Triboelectric Generator to Power Smart Knee Implants

27.05.2019 tribonet 437 Views

The word ‘smart’ in today’s world has to do with information technology and operating system. It is used in many fields of endeavor including medicine. IT-driven knee implants can soon become a treatment method, kudos […]

'Space Fabric' Links Fashion and Engineering

11.07.2017 1,465 Views

Raul Polit Casillas grew up around fabrics. His mother is a fashion designer in Spain, and, at a young age, he was intrigued by how materials are used for design. Now, as a systems engineer [...]
Bi-layered materials: graphene - no heat, no friction; h-BN - as strong as diamond.

20.09.2017 1,375 Views

A group of researchers from Queen’s University Belfast have discovered a stretchy miracle material that could be used to create highly resistant smart devices and scratch-proof paint for cars. Led by Dr Elton Santos from [...]
Minimal Quantity Lubrication: Drop on Demand Printing Technique

20.04.2020 577 Views

Recent research (https://doi.org/10.1007/s40544-017-0183-5) has shown that about 23% of the world’s total energy consumption comes from the tribological contacts (moving parts subject to friction and wear, such as bearings, gears, etc.). This energy is lost, [...]
Tribology and the Human Evolution

12.08.2019 1,061 Views

Tribology, not a common household word, is the science of wear, friction, and lubrication, studying how interacting surfaces behave in relative motion. Tribology does not work in isolation but affects a multitude of other fields [...]
Macroscale superlubricity

11.01.2016 523 Views

Friction rises when bodies come to contact and start relative sliding. This phenomenon occurs in many mechanical systems and it is estimated that over 30% of the fuel in cars is consumed to overcome [...]