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 June 2016


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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