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Liquid Metal Lubricant Tames Molybdenum Friction From Room Temperature to 300 Degrees

A gallium-based liquid metal cuts molybdenum wear by up to 99.4 percent across room temperature to 300 degrees Celsius, but only when atmospheric oxygen builds its protective oxide...

Where there’s friction, there’s fire

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High friction surfacing: where it belongs, what it is made of, and who is allowed to lay it

High friction surfacing is a thin, resin-bonded layer of polish-resistant aggregate, usually calcined bauxite, applied to an existing carriageway to raise skid resistance at locati...

A real-time look inside spacecraft heat shields during extreme heat conditions

When a spacecraft reenters Earth's atmosphere at hypersonic velocities, its protective heat shield faces extreme conditions, including temperatures beyond 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit...

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Adding 0.5% graphene to grease lowers its peak operating temperature by about 30%

Researchers at Ontario Tech University in Canada have used graphene nanoplatelets to cool and protect a commercial lithium grease. They also built a machine learning framework that...

Diamond Steps Up as the Ultimate Heat Shield for Next-Generation Chips

As the semiconductor industry pushes power densities to levels that would have seemed fantastical a decade ago, heat has quietly become the bottleneck that determines how fast, how...

The secret world of tribology

Honor Powrie pays tribute to the work of tribologists The post The secret world of tribology appeared first on Physics World.

A Strange New Material Breaks the Usual Rules of Heat and Stiffness

A new material barely lets heat through yet is up to 10,000 times stiffer than the silicone used in oven mitts. Researchers at North Carolina State University have engineered a thi...