Through billions of years of evolution and natural selection, biological systems have
developed strategies to achieve advantageous unification between structure and bulk …

The amazing adhesion of gecko pads to almost any kind of surfaces has inspired a very
active research direction over the last decade: the investigation of how geckos achieve this …

Over millions of years, biological subjects have been in continuous combat with extreme
environmental conditions. The fittest have survived through continuous evolution, an …

Nature has developed reversibly adhesive surfaces whose stickiness has attracted much
research attention over the last decade. The central lesson from nature is that “patterned” or …

This review article summarizes the progress of research on carbon nanomaterial-based
lubricants witnessed in recent years. Carbon nanomaterials, such as graphene, carbon …

Friction, wear and the associated energy dissipation are major challenges in all systems
containing moving parts. Examples range from nanoelectromechanical systems over hip …

表面织构化作为1 种可以显著提高表面摩擦学性能的方法已得到国内外科学技术工作者的广泛
关注. 从表面织构化的应用领域和研究背景着手, 评述了织构化在改善表面宏观 …

There is a constant need to improve patient comfort and product performance associated
with the use of medical devices. Efforts to optimise the tribological characteristics of medical …

This comprehensive overview of block copolymer micelle nanolithography (BCMN) will
discuss the synthesis of inorganic nanoparticle arrays by means of micellar diblock …

Surface texturing has been recognized as a method for enhancing the tribological properties
of surfaces for many years. Adding a controlled texture to one of two faces in relative motion …