Andrea Aikin
is a freelance science writer and editor based in the Denver area. You can contact her at pivoaiki@sprynet.com. Reprinted with permission from the August 2020 issue of TLT, the official monthly magazine of the Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers, an international not-for-profit professional society headquartered in Park Ridge, Ill., www.stle.org. Available at https://www.stle.org/files/TLTArchives/2020/08_August/Feature.aspx?WebsiteKey=a70334df-8659-42fd-a3bd-be406b5b83e5.
