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Micro fishbones to stop car fuel thirst

Press release (No. 9) - Fraunhofer IWS Dresden /

Dresden Fraunhofer engineers are working on reducing the fuel consumption of cars by more than a tenth. They use ultra-short laser pulses to generate very fine and friction-reducing fishbone patterns in engines.