The reach of tribology has expanded in diverse fields and tribology related research activities have seen immense growth during the last decade.This review takes stock of the recent advances in research pertaining to ...The reach of tribology has expanded in diverse fields and tribology related research activities have seen immense growth during the last decade.This review takes stock of the recent advances in research pertaining to different aspects of tribology within the last 2 to 3 years.Different aspects of tribology that have been reviewed including lubrication,wear and surface engineering,biotribology,high tem perature tribology,and computational tribology.This review attempts to highlight recent research and also presents future outlook pertaining to these aspects.It may however be noted that there are limitations of this review.One of the most important of these is that tribology being a highly multidisciplinary field,the research results are widely spread across various disciplines and there can be omissions because of this.Secondly,the topics dealt with in the field of tribology include only some of the salient topics(such as lubrication,wear,surface engineering,biotribology,high tem perature tribology,and computational tribology)but there are many more aspects of tribology that have not been covered in this review.Despite these limitations it is hoped that such a review will bring the most recent salient research in focus and will be beneficial for the growing community of tribology researchers.展开更多
基金National N atural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.51635009 and 51775460)the funding of State Key Laboratory of Tribology,China(SKLT2018C05).
文摘The reach of tribology has expanded in diverse fields and tribology related research activities have seen immense growth during the last decade.This review takes stock of the recent advances in research pertaining to different aspects of tribology within the last 2 to 3 years.Different aspects of tribology that have been reviewed including lubrication,wear and surface engineering,biotribology,high tem perature tribology,and computational tribology.This review attempts to highlight recent research and also presents future outlook pertaining to these aspects.It may however be noted that there are limitations of this review.One of the most important of these is that tribology being a highly multidisciplinary field,the research results are widely spread across various disciplines and there can be omissions because of this.Secondly,the topics dealt with in the field of tribology include only some of the salient topics(such as lubrication,wear,surface engineering,biotribology,high tem perature tribology,and computational tribology)but there are many more aspects of tribology that have not been covered in this review.Despite these limitations it is hoped that such a review will bring the most recent salient research in focus and will be beneficial for the growing community of tribology researchers.
