Self-lubricating polymer composite coatings, with tailorable tribological and mechanical
properties, have been widely employed on mechanical parts to reduce friction and wear …

Animals moving on and in fluids and solids move their bodies in diverse ways to generate
propulsion and lift forces. In fluids, animals can wiggle, stroke, paddle or slap, whereas on …

Scale/scaly structures are commonly seen in living nature, such as loach and pangolin, and
they generally play an important role in reducing friction between biosurfaces and their …

Textures are abundantly exploited in nature for securing superior functionalities including
adhesion, color manipulation, anti-reflection, and drag management. Over millions of years …

Since the ventral body side of snakes is in almost continuous contact with the substrate
during undulating locomotion, their skin is presumably adapted to generate high friction for …

The small structures that decorate biological surfaces can significantly affect behavior, yet
the diversity of animal–environment interactions essential for survival makes ascribing …

The erodent layer hypothesis (ELH) proposes that drumlinization leaves no substantial
stratigraphic record because it is primarily an erosional process that cuts an unconformity …

Reducing friction forces is a major challenge in many engineering applications involving
moving parts. For the past 50 years, the morphological texturing of surfaces for improving …

We describe a new methodology that enables dynamical control of motion through
modulating the friction at coating surfaces by exposing to UV light. The principle is based on …

Biotribology is an important term which deals with all major facets of tribology anxious with
biological system. It is one of the major appealing and briskly developing fields of tribology. It …