Solid lubrication has become essential in materials science. The first United States patent for these materials was issued in the mid-1940s. 2 Since then, significant progress has been made in the ...

Solid Lubricants such as Molybdenium disulfide (MoS 2), graphite, a number of metal sulfides, metal phosphates, metal powders and thermoplastic materials are being used in various forms to solve ...

A research and development team led by Min Zou, professor of mechanical engineering and an Arkansas Research Alliance Fellow, has received a $550,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to ...

ALTHOUGH the report of the Lubrication Committee has not yet been issued, a “Memorandum on Solid Lubricants,” prepared for the Committee by one of its members, Mr. T. C. Thomsen, has recently been ...

Researchers have developed a new class of nontoxic, biodegradable solid lubricants that can be used to facilitate seed dispersal using modern farming equipment, with the goal of replacing existing ...

Through a multi-university collaboration, researchers at Virginia Tech have discovered a new, solid lubricating mechanism that can reduce friction in machinery at extremely high temperatures. It works ...