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Research Area 4:
Biomimetic Tribology and Biomimetic Materials
By Professor Tong Jin et al.
Natural biomaterials possess optimized structures being adapted for entironment in nature. There exist many tribological phenomena. Tribological behavior of natural biomaterials has inherent relationship with their structure and surface morphology, becoming the basis of research of tribological technology for terrain machinery. This has been resulted in development of the research area of biomimetic tribology. Based on the intercrossing tribology and biology and combining the material biomimetics and morphology biomimetics and applying nano-analysis techniques in agricultural biomaterial research, the research work on doing includes the contents as follows.
Tribology of Natural Biomaterials: tribological environments of natural biomaterials (animals and plants), friction, wear, and lubrication of natural biomaterials and the relationship with their configuration, structure and surface morphology.
Biomimetic Tribological Structure and Morphology: biomimetic tribological techniques for the components or parts of terrain machinery, including biomimetic surface morphology design methods, biomimetic anti-friction techniques, biomimetic tribological system design, and others, based on the tribology of natural biomaterials.
Biomimetic Tribological Materials: biomimetic tribological materials based on the tribology of natural biomaterials, including, according to their functions, biomimetic anti-adhesion materials, biomimetic friction materials, biomimetic anti-wear materials, biomimetic lubricating materials, and, according to their structure, biomimetic composites and coatings and others, and, particularly, combination of biomimetic tribological surface morphology and biomimetic tribological materials.
Nano-analysis of Agricultural Biomaterials: nano-analysis of mechanical properties of agricultural biomaterials with nano-indenter and their microscopic mechanics, the morphologies of the natural surfaces and tribological surfaces of agricultural biomaterials by atomic force microscopy, and their applications in inversion of agricultural biomaterials, quality evaluation of seeds and greenstuff, preparation of biomimetic materials, and the measurement and control of agricultural bio-environment and development of the related agricultural machinery.
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