Green Tribology

摩擦学是润滑、摩擦和磨损的基本基础科学，因此对发动机、变速箱、人体关节植入物、制造、可持续能源和船舶性能等众多机械系统的有效运行至关重要。绿色或环境友好型摩擦学的特定领域强调许多机械系统中相对运动的相互作用表面的磨损、摩擦和润滑的绿色或清洁技术方面。这些表面的相互作用对能源或环境的可持续性具有重要意义，并对当今的环境产生影响。这包括模仿生物自然的摩擦学技术，因此有望是环境友好型的，对节能和转换(从而减少排放和碳足迹)至关重要的摩擦和磨损的控制，改进的制造技术，如化学机械抛光，润滑和表面改性技术的环境方面，以及绿色应用的摩擦学方面，如风力发电和潮汐涡轮机。因此，绿色摩擦学领域将通过减少浪费和延长设备寿命直接影响经济，提高生活质量，并有助于减少许多机械系统的碳足迹。它还将有助于解决增加资源责任的需要，并通过创建符合立法的表面和涂层来取代目前使用的潜在危险涂层，从而降低健康风险。这项建议来自一个非常有能力管理绿色摩擦学新领域的高度创新和具有挑战性的研究的团队。该小组将能够将建立一个多学科团队所必需的不同学科结合在一起，即化学、摩擦学、机械工程、表面科学、材料科学和制造。赠款将侧重于为创新研究创造适当的环境，并提出新的研究方向，因此提出了管理灵活研究组合的设计。这项研究将涵盖建模和实验方法。该团队将在绿色摩擦材料和天然产品化学、摩擦计量学、摩擦电化学、摩擦智能涂层、摩擦传感方面建立世界领先和颠覆性的研究解决方案和示范，以开发绿色摩擦学解决方案。

Tribology is the essential underpinning science of lubrication, friction and wear and therefore is paramount to the efficient operation of numerous mechanical systems such as engines, gearboxes, human joint implants, manufacturing, sustainable energy and ship performance just to name a few. The specific field of green or environment-friendly tribology emphasizes the green or clean technology aspects of wear, friction and lubrication of interacting surfaces in relative motion in numerous mechanical systems. The interaction of these surfaces is of importance for energy or environmental sustainability and has impact upon today's environment. This includes tribological technology that mimics living nature and thus is expected to be environment-friendly, the control of friction and wear that is of importance for energy conservation and conversion (thus emissions and carbon footprint), enhanced manufacturing techniques such as chemical mechanical polishing, environmental aspects of lubrication and surface modification techniques as well as tribological aspects of green applications such as the wind-power and tidal turbines. The area of green tribology will therefore directly affect the economy by reducing waste and extending equipment life, improve the quality of life and will help reduce the carbon footprint of many mechanical systems. It will also help address the need for increased resource responsibility and lower the health risks by creation of legislation compliant surfaces and coatings to replace potential hazardous coatings currently being used. The proposal is from a group that is very able to manage the highly innovative and challenging research into the new area of Green Tribology. The group will be able to join various disciplines together that are essential to establishing a multidisciplinary team, namely chemistry, tribology, mechanical engineering, surface science, material science and manufacturing. The grant would focus on developing the right environment for innovative research and new directions to be studied and therefore designs for managing a flexible research portfolio are presented. The research would cover modelling and experimental approaches. The team will build world-leading and disruptive research solutions and demonstrators in green tribo-materials and natural product chemistry, tribo-metrology, tribo-electrochemistry, tribo-smart coatings, tribo-sensing to develop green tribology solutions.