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ClearVastness of Tribology and its Contribution for a Sustainable Development
This review organizes the vast field of tribology — the science of friction, wear, and lubrication — into six major branches and examines its contributions to sustainable development. Reducing friction and wear in mechanical systems has direct environmental benefits through energy savings and reduced material consumption.
Vastness of Tribology and its Contribution for a Sustainable Development
This review organises the multidisciplinary field of tribology into six branches covering fundamental tribology, materials and lubricants, micro and nanotribology, industrial tribology, biotribology, and emerging frontiers, and examines its contributions to friction and wear reduction for sustainable development.
Tribology and Industry: From the Origins to 4.0
This historical review traces how tribology — the science of friction and wear — has been connected to industrial development since the first industrial revolution. Tribological research is relevant to microplastics because wear of polymer surfaces is a major mechanism by which microplastic particles are generated from tires, machinery, and consumer products.
Tribological Aspects of Rolling Bearing Failures
This review covers the tribology (friction and wear science) of rolling element bearings, discussing failure modes and how material fatigue drives bearing lifespan predictions. This mechanical engineering study has no relevance to microplastics or environmental health.
Nanofluids Minimal Quantity Lubrication Machining: From Mechanisms to Application
This review examines nanofluid minimum quantity lubrication as a sustainable machining technique that reduces environmental impact while maintaining manufacturing precision. The study summarizes the mechanisms and performance benefits of this approach across different materials, aiming to bridge the gap between laboratory research and factory-scale implementation.
Dynamic Processes of Substructural Rearrangement under Friction of Carbon Steel
This study examined how heat treatment affects the friction and wear properties of medium carbon steel, linking material microstructure to tribological performance. The research is focused on materials engineering with limited direct relevance to microplastic pollution or human health.
Current Issues in Combating Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Threats to Empower Sustainability: A Systematic Review
This systematic review of 156 publications found that innovations for combating chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear threats primarily support sustainability goals related to health, well-being, and industry infrastructure. The study identified key research clusters in detection technologies, decontamination methods, and protective equipment. The review's focus on environmental contaminant detection and remediation has indirect relevance to emerging microplastic monitoring approaches.
Multifactorial criterion evaluation of lubrication efficiency and wear resistance of friction units operating under extreme operating conditions
Researchers proposed a multifactorial criterion-based approach to optimising lubricant formulations for friction units operating under extreme conditions, incorporating rheological properties and chemical composition to sustain micro-elastohydrodynamic lubrication and reduce wear. The framework integrates viscosity class selection, plasticity assessment, and lubrication mode criteria to prevent lubrication layer breakdown and extend component service life.
Assessing the Sustainability of Energy-Related Nanomaterial Synthesis: Emphasizing the Need for Energy-Efficient Nanomaterial Preparation Techniques
This review highlights a frequently overlooked issue in nanomaterial research: the energy consumed during synthesis processes is rarely accounted for when evaluating sustainability. While nanomaterials are widely used in energy applications, their production methods can be energy-intensive, potentially undermining their environmental benefits. The authors recommend adopting energy-efficient synthesis techniques to ensure holistic sustainability in nanomaterial-based energy technologies.
New Methodology to Evaluate the Rolling Contact Fatigue Performance of Bearing Steels With Surface Dents: Application to 32CrMoV13 (Nitrided) and M50 Steels
This engineering study developed a method to evaluate how surface dents affect rolling contact fatigue in bearing steels, using indentation testing and two-disk fatigue experiments to compare different steel alloys. This is an industrial engineering study with no relevance to environmental microplastics.
Sustainability Assessment in Manufacturing for Effectiveness: Challenges and Opportunities
This review examined sustainability assessment methodologies in manufacturing, analyzing challenges and opportunities for improving effectiveness across energy, environmental, and economic performance dimensions at various manufacturing levels.
The problem of emission of total particulate matter and heavy metals from tribological systems in vehicles
Researchers measured total particulate matter and heavy metal emissions generated by tribological contact — friction and wear between mechanical components — finding that brake and tire wear produces significant airborne particle loads containing lead, copper, zinc, and other metals. The results underscore tribological wear as a major non-exhaust source of urban air pollution.
Unveiling the mechanism secret of abrasion emissions of particulate matter and microplastics
Researchers investigated the physical and chemical mechanisms driving particulate matter and microplastic emissions from tire abrasion and other organic material wear, a major but poorly understood source of airborne and marine microplastics. The study identified key abrasion mechanisms and material properties that govern emission rates, providing a foundation for reducing non-exhaust traffic-related microplastic pollution.
Production waste of the textile and clothing industry in sustaindevelopment context
Researchers identified and categorized production waste streams from the textile and clothing industry, assessed their environmental impacts in a sustainable development context, and proposed waste minimization strategies in response to increasing EU regulatory pressure.
The Environmental Impact of the Fashion Industry: The Necessity of Sustainability
This study examines the environmental impact of the fashion industry across six dimensions — carbon emissions, clothing waste and synthetic material pollution, chemical and dye water contamination, water resource consumption, microplastic fiber shedding, and land use — arguing for the necessity of systemic sustainability transitions in fashion production and consumption.
Environmental Management and Its Impact on CSR Activities in the Field of Sustainable Development
This is a corporate social responsibility and sustainability study focused on the textile and clothing industry's environmental management practices; it is not a microplastics research paper.
Multiscale Modeling of Friction Coefficients: A Review from Nanocontacts to Macroscopic Sliding
This review examines multiscale modeling approaches for friction coefficients from atomic nanocontacts to macroscopic sliding behavior, finding that classical Coulomb and Amontons laws underrepresent the complexity of friction phenomena revealed by modern computational and experimental research.
Can fashion be sustainable? Trajectories of change in organizational, products and processes, and socio-cultural contexts
This article provides a comprehensive framework for understanding sustainability in the fashion industry across three key dimensions: organizational change, innovation in products and processes, and socio-cultural transformation. Researchers analyzed how shifts in management practices, materials science, and consumer behavior collectively shape the industry's sustainability efforts. The study highlights that meaningful progress requires coordinated action across all three dimensions rather than isolated initiatives.
Exploring sustainable strategies for mitigating microplastic contamination in soil, water, and the food chain: A comprehensive analysis
Researchers reviewed how microplastics from textiles, packaging, and industrial waste enter soil, waterways, and the food chain, and assessed promising removal strategies including magnetic adsorbents, membrane filtration, and electrocoagulation. The review emphasizes that terrestrial microplastic pathways remain poorly understood compared to marine systems and calls for cost-effective, standardized methods to reduce contamination at the source.
Scientific Knowledge Mapping and Thematic Evolution for Tire Wear Particles
This bibliometric analysis maps the scientific literature on tire wear particles, identifying key research themes and trends as this often-overlooked source of microplastic pollution receives growing attention across environmental media.
Tribological Applications of Natural Filler Composites Review Article
This review examines the tribological properties of natural filler composites incorporating fibers such as flax, hemp, kenaf, jute, and agricultural residues like rice husk and wheat straw within polymer matrices, assessing their friction, wear, and lubrication behavior. The authors highlight these eco-friendly composites as sustainable alternatives to synthetic polymers in applications where tribological performance is critical.
Modification of Frictional Surfaces of Bearings by Addition of Nanoparticle Compositions to Lubricants
Researchers studied the effects of nanoparticle additive compositions in lubricating oils on changes to the frictional surface structure and tribological characteristics of a steel-to-steel friction pair, using scanning electron microscopy to analyze surfaces after step-loading fatigue tests.
Sustainable and Healthy Food Systems: The Role of Food Loss and Waste Reduction
This introductory chapter reviews research on food loss and waste reduction within sustainable food systems, arguing that reducing food waste must align with food security, nutrition, environmental sustainability, and socioeconomic equity goals simultaneously.
Engineering Various Morphologies of 2 Dimensional Nanomaterials for Enhanced Nanolubricant Efficiency: A Review
This review examines how two-dimensional nanomaterials of various morphologies—sheets, ribbons, and quantum dots—can be used as lubricant additives to reduce friction and wear, with implications for designing nanomaterial-based systems that minimize environmental release of engineered particles.