Welcome to the Nanoscale Tribology Laboratory!

We study friction, wear and lubrication at atomic length and time scales.

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J. Krim, at her Northeastern University laboratory (Boston, MA, 1998) and lecturing at the 2019 Workshop on Contact Mechanics (Technical University of Berlin)*

“As the need to conserve both energy and raw materials becomes increasingly urgent, our rush to understand basic frictional processes can only be expected to accelerate.“

*Image courtesy of Aydar Akchurin