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Bio-based material stronger than steel and spider silk altogether

16.05.2018 tribonet 611 Views

Researchers at KTH have produced a bio-based material that is reported to surpass the strength of all known bio-based materials whether fabricated or natural, including wood and spider silk. Working with cellulose nanofibre (CNF), the […]

So, what is it, superlubricity?

27.01.2016 1,472 Views

From the first friction quantitative experiments by Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) and most notably from our everyday life experience, it is known that there is an inevitable force opposing to the initiation of motion of [...]
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, [...]
Say “modeling” not “simulation”

24.07.2017 1,486 Views

Richard M. Stallman, founder and president of the Free Software Foundation and founding father of the GNU Project, has a long been repeating “say GNU, not Linux” although he has not had much success. In the same sense, from this corner [...]
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 [...]
Stability of vacuum oil in space

25.06.2018 891 Views

A research team from the Research Institute of Mechanics, MSU together with a colleague from the Center of New Space Technologies, MAI described the behavior of a liquid sheet (vacuum oil) propagating in open space. [...]