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Programmable Friction: Electrical Regulation of Ionic Liquid Lubrication

23.11.2020 Dr. Aydar Akchurin 461 Views

Friction is a force rising between two surfaces when they move in opposite directions or when one moves over a stationary surface. The scale of the movement does not matter: from the movement of continental […]

Cartilage tribology: Slip sliding away

22.01.2018 877 Views

Research sheds light on friction, lubrication and wear in cartilage 11:25 a.m., Aug. 24, 2015–Osteoarthritis, which affects some 27 million people in the U.S. alone, occurs when the protective cartilage on the ends of bones [...]
Macroscale superlubricity

11.01.2016 503 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 [...]
Mechano-chemical wear and tribofilm thickness simulation

29.03.2016 471 Views

When the conditions in the tribosystem are such that the lubricant is not capable of carrying any significant part of the applied load, most of the load is carried by the direct contact of the [...]
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Sediments Act As Lubricants for Plate Tectonics

09.09.2019 417 Views

Plate tectonics explains the features and movement of the Earth’s surface both in the present and in the past. It is the theory that the outer shell of Earth is divided into many plates (including [...]
Surface Replication Compounds

16.04.2016 1,400 Views

The first challenge when measuring a surface topography via optical techniques is getting the sample to the lab. Although optical surface roughness measurement does not damage the component per se (NDT), the fact of fitting [...]