Summary
This Research Infrastructure Improvement (RII) EPSCoR Research Fellows project provides a fellowship to an Assistant Professor and training for a graduate student at Oklahoma State University (OSU). This work is conducted in collaboration with Prof. Babak Anasori at Purdue University. Through the fellowship, the principal investigator (PI) will investigate the formation of protective films at sliding interfaces via catalytic reactions on MXenes, a class of layered ceramics with excellent catalytic properties. These self-forming and self-healing films mitigate friction and wear, but the underly
