Fraunhofer Representative Office Beijing
Virtually frictionless — virtual material probe sheds light on the friction gap
Die Gewinner des Wissenschaftspreises des Stifterverbandes »Forschen im Verbund« 2022: Prof. Dr. Matthias Scherge (links) und Prof. Dr. Michael Moseler.
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Ensuring that power plants operate without breaking down and that vehicles run energy-efficiently ultimately depends on just a few atoms. A virtual ma-terial probe makes it possible to see, and therefore control, tribological processes at the atomic level. A team of researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials IWM is being awarded the Stifterverband Science Prize 2022 for this development.


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