November 5, 2021
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Welcome to the 5th edition of Modern Surface: Dental tribology, organisation and to-do lists. I've been relying on my to-do list app increasingly in the past couple of weeks to keep me on track across the various projects I'm involved in. Time management and scheduling is a skill I had to develop during my PhD; I began very disorganised but it quickly become clear I would have a less stressful time with just a little organisation. By focusing on one task at a time and knowing what I should be doing at any point during the day, I find I'm much more productive. No more trying to multi-task, it's just a myth anyway.
Dental tribology is an oft-overlooked but nonetheless fascinating area of bio-tribology. Degradation mechanisms and future challenges of titanium and its alloys for dental implant applications in oral environment by Revathi et al. reviews the use of titanium for dental tribological applications:
Scimago is a fantastic resource for ranking journals from various countries across numerous fields. They also have a suite of visualisation tools to help you compare the data available. The figure below (generated using Scimago Graphica) shows the top 10 journals in surfaces, coatings and films, if you want to explore the data used to generate this further, it's available here.
Smartphones are such a ubiquitous part of modern life that we probably give little thought to the materials that into creating them. The infographic below shows the many rare elements used to create our essential pocket computers and what components they are used in. You can find out more about this infographic here.
Advances in Time Gated Mechanical Spectroscopy to solve small-scale shock problems