Superlubricity, the state of ultralow friction between two sliding surfaces, has become a
frontier subject in tribology. Here, a state-of-the-art review of the phenomena and …

The need for energy efficiency is leading to the growing use of additives that reduce friction
in thin film boundary and mixed lubrication conditions. Several classes of such friction …

Friction is undoubtedly one of the most common yet intriguing physical phenomena
encountered in our daily lives. It would be impossible to play a stringed instrument or write …

Mucins have long been recognized as instrumental to biolubrication but the molecular
details of their lubrication mechanisms have only been explored relatively recently. The …

We describe robustly anchored triblock copolymers that adopt loop conformations on
surfaces and endow them with unprecedented lubricating and antifouling properties. The …

PERSPECTIVES to permeate into the network, as does cartilage. Among the many
hydrogels that have been investigated, those with brush-like polymer chains at their surfaces …

Super-hydrophilic polymer brushes were prepared by surface-initiated atom transfer radical
polymerization of 2-methacryloyloxyethyl phosphorylcholine (MPC) on initiator-immobilized …

Superlubricity is a terminology often used to describe a sliding regime in which the adhesion
leading to friction or resistance to sliding literally vanishes. For improved energy security …

This article demonstrates a water‐lubrication system using high‐density hydrophilic polymer
brushes consisting of 2, 3‐dehydroxypropyl methacrylate (DHMA), vinyl alcohol, oligo …

Hypothesis Superlubricity is known to dramatically reduce frictional energy consumption and
to improve service life of mechanical devices and biological systems. However, reduction of …