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Solid Lubricants: Overview and Recent Developments

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The 1980s were a very fertile period for solid lubricant research and development. The 1990s will be an equally exciting period, as the advanced aircraft and spacecraft discussed here begin to fly and fuel economy of engines and industrial processes continues to increase. Solid lubricants will continue to enable many of these advances.

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    Paul Sutor PhD in inorganic chemistry (Director of research)

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Sutor, P. Solid Lubricants: Overview and Recent Developments. MRS Bulletin 16, 24–30 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1557/S0883769400056864

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