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Carbon-Based Materials with Tunable Mechanical and Electronic Properties

17.02.2020 tribonet 403 Views

When someone hears the word diamond the first thing that comes to mind is often something related to jewelry. However, diamonds are actually mostly used for industrial purposes: 75% of the world’s supply of natural […]

Tuning dry friction with micro-honeycomb patterns

11.01.2017 1,218 Views

Controlling friction is one of the top priorities for many tribologists. The friction in bearings has to be reduced to increase the energy efficiency of numerous devices, while friction in transmission systems has to be [...]
Triboelectricity - a big renewable energy source

12.12.2016 2,395 Views

Tribo-electric effect is an effect of electricity generation, when two dissimilar materials come into contact and electrons migrate from one to another. Most of us have observed the tribo-electric effect in their life when rubbed [...]
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, [...]
Guidance Notes on Friction

19.03.2018 3,490 Views

In dry sliding between a given pair of materials under steady conditions, the coefficient of friction may be almost constant. This is the basis for two EMPIRICAL Laws of Sliding Friction, which are often known [...]
Reformulating Lubricating Oils to Improve Engine Performance

14.07.2019 715 Views

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 [...]