We are pleased to announce that a Faraday Discussion on Tribology took place in Southampton, UK in April, and Conference Chair Professor Robert Wood, has highlighted the following ‘HOT’ articles from the conference below:
Hydration lubrication: exploring a new paradigm
Anastasya Gaisinskaya, Liran Ma, Gilad Silbert, Raya Sorkin, Odeya Tairy, Ronit Goldberg, Nir Kampf and Jacob Klein
DOI: 10.1039/C2FD00127F
Fate of methanol molecule sandwiched between hydrogen-terminated diamond-like carbon films by tribochemical reactions: tight-binding quantum chemical molecular dynamics study
Kentaro Hayashi, Seiichiro Sato, Shandan Bai, Yuji Higuchi, Nobuki Ozawa, Tomomi Shimazaki, Koshi Adachi, Jean-Michel Martin and Momoji Kubo
DOI: 10.1039/C2FD00125J
Sliding friction at soft micropatterned elastomer interfaces
Elise Degrandi-Contraires, Christophe Poulard, Frédéric Restagno and Liliane Léger
DOI: 10.1039/C2FD00121G
The mechanics of nanometre-scale molecular contacts
Katerina Busuttil, Nikolaos Nikogeorgos, Zhenyu Zhang, Mark Geoghegan, Christopher A. Hunter and Graham J. Leggett
DOI: 10.1039/C2FD00133K
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