Friction is the enemy of all things mechanical, and without regular maintenance, machinery service life becomes severely reduced until, ultimately, the machines cease to function. Anyone who owns a ...

Researchers have uncovered friction without contact—driven entirely by magnetic interactions. As two magnetic layers slide, ...

For the first time, physicists in China have virtually eliminated the friction felt between two surfaces at scales visible to the naked eye. In demonstrating "structural superlubricity," the team, led ...

1.1 What is friction? Take this everyday example: when a coffee mug rests on a flat table, the kinetic frictional force is zero. There is no force trying to move the mug across the table, so there is ...

Researchers at the University of Konstanz have uncovered a new mechanism of sliding friction: resistance to motion that ...

When two solid surfaces come into contact with each other, friction acts to prevent their relative motion, but the ability to reduce this friction to nearly zero is called structural superlubricity.

The study of friction and lubrication mechanisms at the nanoscale has increasingly focussed on graphene and its related two-dimensional materials, owing to their remarkable mechanical and tribological ...