Electrically tunable ionic hydrogels use small voltages to switch friction at metal contacts between high-friction and ultra-low-friction states, enabling voltage-programmed grip, release and motion ...

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Virginia Tech advances additive friction stir deposition - creating a strong, defect-free material that can be 3D printed in bulk.

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Material removal in the cutting process is regarded as a friction system with multiple input and output variables. The complexity of the cutting friction system is caused by the extreme conditions ...

Since his postdoctoral days at MIT, Hang Yu, associate professor of materials science and engineering, has been wrestling ...

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The triboluminescence (TL) of metal halide perovskite (MHP) films is found for the first time. Scraping the MHP film with a ...