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Research project

Green Tribology

Staff

Lead researcher

Professor Robert Wood

Professor of Surface Engand Tribology

Research interests

  • the application of lubrication, wear and friction science
  • current and next generation critical machine components (bearings, transmissions, turbines, pumps)
  • renewable energy systems
Connect with Robert

Email: r.wood@soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Professor Philip Bartlett

Professor of Chemistry

Research interests

  • Electrochemistry
  • Bioelectrochemistry
  • Templated electrodeposition of nanomaterials
Connect with Philip

Email: P.N.Bartlett@soton.ac.uk

Professor Julian Wharton

Professor
Connect with Julian

Email: J.A.Wharton@soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Electrochemistry

A well-established world-class group researching energy charge transfer that affects many facets of life.

Research outputs

Complete electrolytic plastron recovery in a low drag superhydrophobic surface
Ben Peter Lloyd, Philip N. Bartlett & Robert Wood, 2021, ACS Omega, 6(5), 3483–3489
DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.0c03466
Type: article
A novel surface texture shape for directional friction control
Ping Lu, Robert Wood, Mark Gee, Ling Wang & Wilhelm Pfleging, 2018, Tribology Letters, 66(51)
DOI: 10.1007/s11249-018-0995-0
Type: article
Comparison of metal-on-metal hip simulator wear measured by gravimetric, CMM and optical profiling methods
L. Russell Alberts, Vanesa Martinez-nogues, Richard Baker Cook, Christian Maul, Paul Bills, R. Racasan, Martin Stolz & Robert J.K. Wood, 2018, Surface Topography: Metrology and Properties, 6(1)
DOI: 10.1088/2051-672X/aaa518
Type: article
Explicit fracture modelling of cemented tungsten carbide (WC-Co) at the mesoscale
Stephen Herd, Robert Wood, Julian Wharton & C F Higgs III, 2018, Materials Science and Engineering: A, 712, 373-379
DOI: 10.1016/j.msea.2017.11.109
Type: article
A critical review of the tribocorrosion of cemented and thermal sprayed tungsten carbide
Robert Wood, Stephen Herd & Mandar Rajiv Thakare, 2017, Tribology International
DOI: 10.1016/j.triboint.2017.10.006
Type: article