Simulations lead to design of near-frictionless material

Simulations lead to design of near-frictionless material

Argonne scientists used Mira to identify and improve a new mechanism for eliminating friction, which fed into the development of a hybrid material that exhibited superlubricity at the macroscale for the first time. Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) researchers helped enable the groundbreaking simulations by overcoming a performance bottleneck that doubled the speed of the team's code.

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More information: Science 5 June 2015: Vol. 348 no. 6239 pp. 1118-1122. DOI: 10.1126/science.1262024