EU INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH PROJECT DEVELOPS NEW COATINGS CUTTING FRICTION WITHIN ENGINES
August 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union (EU)-coordinated research project has helped develop coatings that enable moving engine parts to operate without lubricating oils. These "dry lubricant free transmission applications", said a European Commission briefing note, were developed by coating engine parts with "one micrometer thick vacuum-deposited diamond-like carbon". Scientists from 58 institutes in 30 countries coordinated by the EU's COST international research system made a "breakthrough" boosting "understanding of the basic ...
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