This review summarizes recent advances in the area of tribology based on the outcome of a
Lorentz Center workshop surveying various physical, chemical and mechanical phenomena …

The physics of sliding friction is gaining impulse from nanoscale and mesoscale
experiments, simulations, and theoretical modeling. This Colloquium reviews some recent …

Graphite and other lamellar materials are used as dry lubricants for macroscale metallic
sliding components and high-pressure contacts. It has been shown experimentally that …

The frictional properties of a rough contact interface are controlled by its area of real contact,
the dynamical variations of which underlie our modern understanding of the ubiquitous rate …

It is well-known that the electron nature of a solid in contact plays a predominant role in
determining the many properties of the contact systems, but the general rules of electron …

The friction, which commonly exist on moving mechanical interfaces, accounts for structure
damage and energy consumption. Traditional lubricating protection strategy mainly focus on …

This paper reviews recent progress in molecular dynamics simulation of atomic-scale friction
measured by an atomic force microscopy. Each section of the review focuses on an …

Earth's surface is composed of a staggering diversity of particulate–fluid mixtures: dry to wet,
dilute to dense, colloidal to granular and attractive to repulsive particles. This material variety …

Earthquake-like ruptures break the contacts that form the frictional interface separating
contacting bodies and mediate the onset of frictional motion (stick-slip). The slip (motion) of …

After the rapid growth in the use of CoCrMo metal-on-metal hip replacements since the
second generation was introduced circa 1990, metal-on-metal hip replacements have …