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May 14, 2015
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Graphene-wrapped diamond ball bearings cut friction to virtually nothing A method that reduces friction between two surfaces to almost zero on macroscopic scales has been demonstrated by US researchers.   |
Chemistry World
December 1, 2011
Nina Notman |
Chemical Bonding Between Tectonic Plates New research suggests that scientists must take into account chemical bonding across fault lines to understand the friction generated between tectonic bodies. But not everyone in the scientific community is convinced. |
Chemistry World
November 1, 2007
Simon Hadlington |
Shaking up Nanofriction US scientists have performed the equivalent of the school-lab experiment of dragging a mass across different surfaces to measure frictional forces - but at the atomic scale. |
Chemistry World
March 26, 2009
Phillip Broadwith |
'Molecular ball-bearings' for artificial joints Scientists have used water to create almost frictionless lubricated surfaces, which stay slippery even under heavy loads. |
Chemistry World
December 22, 2011
Laura Howes |
Artificial hips glide on graphite Metal-on metal hip replacements are lubricated by a layer of graphite, say scientists in the US. |
Chemistry World
December 1, 2011
Laura Howes |
Soot inspires a self-cleaning glass Candle soot has been utilized in a budget approach to self-cleaning surfaces that are both water and oil repellent. |
Popular Mechanics
February 2010
Roy Berendsohn |
How to Make a Slip-Proof Garage Floor: DIY Home Adding a pound of sand to a gallon of floor paint creates a slip-resistant coating. |
Chemistry World
November 11, 2008
Lewis Brindley |
Design rules for wet-proof materials A new series of equations should allow scientists to design the ultimate unwettable surfaces, according to Robert Cohen and Gareth McKinley at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US. |
Chemistry World
December 6, 2007
Tom Westgate |
Giving Oil the Slip Scientists in the US have described how to design surfaces that repel oils for the first time. |
Chemistry World
November 29, 2010
Simon Hadlington |
Mystery of diamond polishing solved? Mike Ashfold, an expert on the chemistry of diamond at the University of Bristol in the UK, says, 'Polishers have long recognised that some diamond surfaces polish more easily, and more successfully, than others. |
Chemistry World
December 15, 2015
Matthew Gunther |
Fast skating forces ice to feel the heat A scientist in Germany has now calculated why sliding across ice is so unpredictable and that your speed determines how slippery the ice will be. |
Chemistry World
July 19, 2010
Phillip Broadwith |
Designing porous patterns Belgian chemists are finally getting to grips with how to control the way molecules arrange themselves at the solid-liquid interface. |
