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Unraveling the Secret Behind Nature's Strongest Material

16.03.2020 tribonet 938 Views

Nacre, which is also known as mother-of-pearl, holds the reputation as the toughest material found in nature. Nacre is a composite organic-inorganic material produced as an inner shell layer in some mollusks. It is also […]

Reformulating Lubricating Oils to Improve Engine Performance

14.07.2019 671 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 [...]
Brasenia schreberi mucilage - superlubric biological liquid

21.03.2016 419 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 [...]
Impact of water on Grease film thickness in rolling point contacts

26.02.2017 1,229 Views

In a rolling bearing, the load transmission is often accompanied by high contact stresses which may eventually lead to wear and/or fatigue. In order to ensure separation of moving parts leading to a long life, [...]
Modern Applications of Tribology

16.07.2017 1,404 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 [...]
Friction and Wear: From Elementary Mechanisms to Macroscopic Behavior

23.09.2019 1,254 Views

In the last 25 years, the global trend to miniaturization has raised interest in frictional processes on the micro and nano scale and facilitated appearance of nanotribology as a new branch of research. Soon it [...]