Bo Persson, Jülich Research Center (IMAGE)

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Bo Persson, Jülich Research Center

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For more than 20 years, Bo Persson, a scientist at the Jülich Research Center, has studied friction. Persson developed a set of equations describing the complex phenomenon of rubber friction, which he and his colleagues recently tested for blocks of rubber sliding across rough road surfaces.

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FZ Jülich

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