Calculations of the impact of friction and wear on energy consumption, economic
expenditure, and CO 2 emissions are presented on a global scale. This impact study covers …

Since antiquity, humans have been involved in designing materials through alloying
strategies to meet the ever-growing technological demands. In 2004, this endeavor …

Understanding the fundamental of contact-induced behavior in metals is critical for the
studies of associated mechanical properties. Although nanocontact plasticity in the …

The adhesive wear process remains one of the least understood areas of mechanics. While
it has long been established that adhesive wear is a direct result of contacting surface …

Zr/Nb 6 multilayers of 6 nm periodicity, with well-composition-modulated structures, were
prepared by magnetron sputtering. Their microstructure and scratch properties were …

Carbon-based perovskite solar cells (C-PSCs) are emerging as low-cost stable
photovoltaics. However, their power conversion efficiency (PCE) still lags behind that of …

Indentation is one of the most widely used methods to determine the characteristics of
metallic materials. Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are a powerful tool to investigate …

While material design and mechanical properties have been extensively investigated in
medium entropy alloy (MEA), resources are no available to evaluate more complex …

Nanoindentation experiments in metal surfaces are characterized by the onset of plastic
instabilities along with the development of permanent nanoimprints and dense defect …

The mechanisms of deformation under a nanoindentation in tantalum, chosen as a model
body-centered cubic (bcc) metal, are identified and quantified. Molecular dynamics (MD) …