Green tribology: Principles, research areas and challenges

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 368, Issue 1929, 2010, Pages 4677-4694

  Nosonovsky, Michael ^a   Bhushan, Bharat ^b  

^a University of Wisconsin Milwaukee   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative energy; Biomimetics; Nanotechnology; Tribology

Indexed keywords

BIOMIMETICS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; RESEARCH;

ALTERNATIVE ENERGY; BIODEGRADABLE LUBRICATION; ENERGY APPLICATIONS; ENGINEERING PRINCIPLES; ENVIRONMENT FRIENDLY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPLICATIONS; FUTURE DIRECTIONS; GREEN CHEMISTRY; GREEN ENGINEERING; REAL TIME MONITORING; RESEARCH AREAS; SELF-LUBRICATION; SURFACE-TEXTURING; SUSTAINABLE CHEMISTRY; SUSTAINABLE ENERGY; TRIBOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS;

TRIBOLOGY;

EID: 78149303195     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2010.0200     Document Type: Article

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