The centre will carry out an ambitious research programme with high international visibility. Major achievements will be

• advanced lubricant formulation (e.g., ionic liquids/additives) and sensors for condition monitoring,
• functional characterization and design of tribo-active surface structures,
• design concepts (material/component design) avoiding abrasive wear,
• techniques for in-situ nano wear volume measuring,
• customized friction models for powertrain design,
• multiscale modelling of tribosystems covering material physics (ab initio) to structural dynamics.

Research Topics:
Lubricants and Surface Interactions; Wear Processes; Integrated Tribodiagnostics and Tribodesign; Multiscale Computational Tribology; Techniques for in-situ nano wear volume measuring