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Tribology: Faraday Discussion 156 now published!

Faraday Discussion 156: Tribology has now been published online.

FD156: Tribology

Please take a look at this interesting volume which covers the following themes:

  • Future lubricated systems
  • Smart tribological surfaces
  • Predictive modelling
  • Biotribology

This volume contains all the papers and discussions from the conference which took place in Southampton, UK in April this year. Please find some of the highlights below:

Introductory Lecture
Bio-tribology
Duncan Dowson
Faraday Discuss., 2012, 156, 9-30
DOI: 10.1039/C2FD20103H

‘HOT’ Articles
Hydration lubrication: exploring a new paradigm
Anastasya Gaisinskaya, Liran Ma, Gilad Silbert, Raya Sorkin, Odeya Tairy, Ronit Goldberg,Nir Kampf and Jacob Klein
Faraday Discuss., 2012, 156, 217-233
DOI: 10.1039/C2FD00127F
The mechanics of nanometre-scale molecular contacts
Katerina Busuttil, Nikolaos Nikogeorgos, Zhenyu Zhang, Mark Geoghegan, Christopher A. Hunter and Graham J. Leggett
Faraday Discuss., 2012, 156, 325-341
DOI: 10.1039/C2FD00133K

Concluding Lecture
Polyelectrolyte brushes: a novel stable lubrication system in aqueous conditions
Motoyasu Kobayashi, Masami Terada and Atsushi Takahara
Faraday Discuss., 2012, 156, 403-412
DOI: 10.1039/C2FD00123C

Please take a look at our blog on the FD156 conference which contains some ‘HOT’ articles highlighted by Chair Professor Robert Wood.

You can purchase this volume as an individual book through our website.

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Hot articles from FD156: Tribology

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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Tribology Faraday Discussion 156 2-4 April 2012 University of Southampton, UK

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