Slippery Customer: A Greener Antiwear Additive for Engine Oils

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NIST materials scientists Cherno Jaye (r.) and Dan Fischer adjust a sample chamber for NISTs soft x-ray materials characterization beamline at the National Synchrotron Light Source. Image: NIST
NIST materials scientists Cherno Jaye (r.) and Dan Fischer adjust a sample chamber for NIST's soft x-ray materials characterization beamline at the National Synchrotron Light Source. Image: NIST
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Titanium, a protean element with applications from pigments to aerospace alloys, could get a new role as an environmentally friendly additive for automotive oil, thanks to work by materials scientists from Afton Chemical Corporation (Richmond, Va.) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology.


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