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Chemical impurities make carbon surfaces superslippery, researchers find
- June 14, 2026 at 1:00 PM
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Engineers often treat impurities as a problem to eliminate to improve material performance. But new research from Osaka Metropolitan University and Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials IWM suggests that in some cases, a little chemical messiness is exactly what helps materials slide more smoothly. The findings were published in Advanced Science.
Originally published at Phys.org