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Tribology & Lubrication Technology
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FEATURES
20 MINUTES
20 Minutes With Bryan Johnson
This 25-year industry professional discusses the challenges of lubricating machinery in a nuclear power plant.
LUBRICATION FUNDAMENTALS
How Tribology Transformed the 20th Century
A recent report describes our science’s impact on the greatest technical advances of the past 100 years.
WEBINARS
Friction and Wear Fundamentals: Characterizing the Tribo-System and Defining the Tribo-Test
Success depends on understanding the properties of the entire interacting system.
FEATURE ARTICLE
How Coatings and Surface Engineering are Shaping Tomorrow’s World
Wind, automotive and aerospace will be the principle beneficiaries of today’s R&D.
TECH BEAT I
Lightweight self-lubricating metal matrix composites
These materials can be designed to meet a specific performance requirement.
TECH BEAT II
New single-layer two-dimensional material
A silicon boron nitrate material has the potential to overcome the limitations of graphene.
TECH BEAT III
New characterization of van der Waals interactions
This finding helps to explain why vdW interactions occur over significantly longer distances at the nanoscale.
COLUMNS
PRESIDENT’S REPORT
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FROM THE EDITOR
Talkin’ ’bout the car wash
HEADQUARTERS REPORT
Meetings Still Mean Business
CUTTING EDGE
Synthesizing Super-Slick Surfaces
AUTOMOTIVE TRIBOLOGY
Gasoline injection's rapid growth
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