A pretty large topic... hopefully will not became a troll.
Concerning current researches on the topic, more concerned with mechanical engineering, I will nevertheless make a bit of an advertising (sorry): you can have a look on the topics of the World Tribology Conference series (the next one, number 7, is planned in France) see https://www.wtc-2022.org and previous issues of this series (2017 in China, 2013 in Italy...)