Superlubricity: A new era in solid lubrication technology?

Dr. Anirudha Sumant working in the Superlubricity Lab at the Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory. The word superlubricity was coined by Motohisa Hirano in the early 1990s. The Japanese scientist theoretically predicted the existence of a physical state where sliding friction between two contacting surfaces virtually vanishes under certain conditions. Hirano conducted wear…