Editorial Office
Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Dr. James E. Krzanowski
Mechanical Engineering Department, University of New Hampshire, Kingsbury Hall, 33 Academic Way, Durham, NH 03824, USA
Tel. +1 603 862 2315; Fax: +1 603 862 1865
Website: http://www.unh.edu/mechanical-engineering/me-faculty-staff/krzanowski_james
E-Mail: jamesk@cisunix.unh.edu
Interests: tribology; thin films; solid lubricants; wear mechanisms; hard coatings
Assistant Editor
Ms. Maple Lv
MDPI Haidian Office, Yingu Mansion, Suite 815, North 4th Ring Road West, 9, Haidian District, Beijing 100190, China
Tel. +86 10 6280 0830
E-Mail: maple.lv@mdpi.com
Editorial Assistant
Dr. Echo Zhang
MDPI Haidian Office, Yingu Mansion, Suite 815, North 4th Ring Road West, 9, Haidian District, Beijing 100190, China
Tel. +86 10 6280 0830
E-Mail: echo.zhang@mdpi.com
Publisher
Dr. Shu-Kun Lin
MDPI AG, Kandererstrasse 25, CH-4057 Basel, Switzerland
Tel. +41 79 322 33 79
Website: http://www.mdpi.org/lin/
E-Mail: lin@mdpi.com
Editorial Board
Prof. Dr. Mike Adams
School of Chemical Engineering, The University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK
Tel. +44 1214 145297
Website: http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/chemical-engineering/adams-mike.aspx
E-Mail: m.j.adams@bham.ac.uk
Interests: tribology; wear and frictional phenomena; lubrication; contact phenomena or surface characterization; new materials and their tribological behavior; reduction of friction and wear
Prof. Dr. Pranesh B. Aswath
Materials Science and Engineering, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, University of Texas at Arlington, 501 West First Street, ELB Rm. 231, Arlington, TX 76019, USA
Tel. +1 817 272 7108
Website: http://www.uta.edu/ra/real/editprofile.php?onlyview=1&pid=5
E-Mail: aswath@uta.edu
Interests: tribology; drug delivery; polymers; ceramics; lubrication; wear; fatigue; fracture; intermetallics; oxidation; coatings
Contribution:
Special Issue: Boundary Lubrication
Prof. Dr. Bharat Bhushan
Nanoprobe Laboratory for Bio- & Nanotechnology and Biomimetics (NLB2), Ohio State University, 201 W. 19th Avenue Columbus, Ohio 43210-1142, USA
Tel. +1 614 292 0651
Website: http://www.mecheng.osu.edu/nlbb/
E-Mail: bhushan.2@osu.edu
Interests: bio/nanotribology/nanomechanics; nanomaterials characterization in bio/nanotechnology and biomimetics; scanning probe techniques
Dr. Giovanni Bolelli
Department of Materials and Environmental Engineering, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, via Vignolese 905, I-41125 Modena (MO), Italy
Tel. +39 059 2056233; Fax: +39 059 2056243
Website: http://maneypublishing.com/index.php/editors/giovanni_bolelli/
E-Mail: giovanni.bolelli@unimore.it
Interests: thermal spray processes; physical vapour deposition (PVD); chemical vapour deposition (CVD); pack treatments; tribology of coatings; micromechanical characterization of coatings and surfaces; electrochemical corrosion testing; hot corrosion phenomena; residual stresses in coatings and surfaces
Prof. Dr. J. Paulo Davim
Department Mechanical Engineering, University of Aveiro, Campus Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal
Fax: +351 234 370953
Website: http://www2.mec.ua.pt/machining/pers-davim.htm
E-Mail: pdavim@ua.pt
Interests: composites; polymers and metallic alloys; tribology; biotribology; machining; micromanufacturing; sustainable manufacturing; mechanical engineering; manufacturing; materials
Dr. Maria Isabel De Barros Bouchet
Department of Laboratory of Tribology and System Dynamics (LTDS), Ecole Centrale de Lyon (ECL), 36 Avenue Guy de Collongue, 69134, ECULLY cedex, France
Tel. +33 4 72 18 62 80; Fax: +33 4 78 43 33 83
E-Mail: maria-isabel.de-barros@ec-lyon.fr
Interests: tribology; lubricants and additives of lubrication; gas phase lubrication; surfaces analyses; carbon-based coatings
Prof. Dr. Peter Filip
Center for Advanced Friction Studies, Mechanical Engineering and Energy Processes Engineering A108, Mailcode 4343, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, 1230 Lincoln Drive, Carbondale, Illinois 62901, USA
Tel. +1 618 453 7932; Fax: +1 618 453 5260
Website: http://frictioncenter.engr.siu.edu/PeterFilip/StaffpeterFilip.html
E-Mail: filip@siu.edu
Interests: carbon fiber reinforced ceramic matrix composite materials; anocrystalline composites for biomedical applications; henolic matrix composite materials for frictional applications; advanced tooling materials with intermetallic matrices; characterization of materials
Dr. German S. Fox-Rabinovich
Department of Mechanical Engineering, McMaster University, 1280 Main St., W. Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4L7, Canada
Tel. +1 905 525 9140; Fax: +1 905 521 2773
Website: http://www.researcherid.com/ProfileView.action?returnCode=ROUTER.Unauthorized&queryString=KG0UuZjN5WlbNDYeE9y49Mcw1BbD1Q9%252BsicOIVCGESs%253D&SrcApp=CR&Init=Yes
E-Mail: gfox@mcmaster.ca
Interests: hard physical vapor deposited (PVD) coatings; surface science and engineering; thin films and interfaces; adaptive and self-lubricating coatings; self-organization during friction; tribology of cutting
Dr. T.C.S.M. Gupta
Chief Operating Officer & Chief Technology Officer, Lube World Holdings Sdn Bhd, No.17-1&17-2, Block C1, Jalan PJU 1/41, Dataran Prima, 47301, Petaling jaya, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia
Tel. +60 193 125 055; Fax: +60 378 039 650
E-Mail: tcsm.gupta@aclubricants.com
Interests: lubricants and additives; product development and formulation optimization; application of breakthrough techniques in product optimization; separation processes; additive manufacture and process development
Prof. Dr. Doug Hargreaves
Science and Engineering Faculty, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD 4001, Australia
Tel. +61 7 3138 2419
Website: http://staff.qut.edu.au/staff/hargreav/
E-Mail: d.hargreaves@qut.edu.au
Interests: bearing design; characteristics and performance; design of machine elements; engineering education; environmentally friendly lubricants; lubricant performance; mechanical engineering; tribology (friction, lubrication and wear); water as a lubricant
Prof. Dr. Mitjan Kalin
Centre for Tribology and Technical Diagnostics, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Bogisiceva ul. 8, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Tel. +386 1 4771 462; Fax: +386 1 4771 469
Website: http://www.tint.fs.uni-lj.si/en?set_language=en
E-Mail: mitjan.kalin@ctd.fs.uni-lj.si
Interests: boundary lubrication; coatings; ceramics; polymers; nanoparticles; nanotribology; tribological interfaces; tribological design
Prof. Dr. Valery Khabashesku
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Cullen College of Engineering, University of Houston, 4800 Calhoun Rd., Rm. N42G, Engineering Building 1, Bd. N 579, Houston, TX 77204, USA
Website: http://www.chee.uh.edu/faculty/research_professors/khabashesku/main.html
E-Mail: valery@uh.edu
Interests: chemistry and spectroscopy of transient molecules containing double and triple pi bonds at group 14 elements (C, Si, Ge, Sn); carbenes; small strained metallacycles; fullerenes; high pressure/high temperature synthesis; degradation chemistry of materials; hydrogen storage materials; design of integrated polymer composites, organic-inorganic hybrids and coatings, lubricants, surface chemistry, organic and inorganic materials synthesis; engineering and nanotechnology
Contribution:
In other journals:
Special Issue: The New Diamond Age?
Dr. Roger Lewis
The University of Sheffield, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Mappin Street, Sheffield, S1 3JD, UK
Tel. +44 1142 227838; Fax: +44 1142 227838
Website: http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/mecheng/staff/lewis
E-Mail: Roger.Lewis@sheffield.ac.uk
Interests: general tribology, wear modelling and mapping, wheel/rail contact tribology; skin friction and deformation; engine tribology
Prof. Dr. Hong Liang
Materials Science & Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3123, USA
Tel. +1 979 862 2623; Fax: +1 979 845 3081
Website: http://liang.tamu.edu/
E-Mail: hliang@tamu.edu
Interests: surface properties-behavior relations; (nano) tribology; tribochemistry; bio-nanointerface; biomaterials; nanomanufacturing; CMP
Prof. Dr. David Mba
Department of Power and Propulsion Building 52, School of Engineering Cranfield University, College Road, Cranfield, Bedfordshire, MK43 0AL, UK
Tel. +44 1234 754681
Website: http://www.cranfield.ac.uk/soe/profiles/d_mba.html
E-Mail: d.mba@cranfield.ac.uk
Interests: tribology; wear and frictional phenomena; acoustic emission
Prof. Dr. Efstathios "Stathis" I. Meletis
Materials Science and Engineering, Department, University of Texas at Arlington, Mail Box 19031, WH, Room 325, 501 West First Street, Arlington, TX 76019, USA
Tel. +1 817 272 2559; Fax: + 1 817 272 2538
Website: http://www.uta.edu/ra/real/editprofile.php?pid=283
E-Mail: meletis@uta.edu
Interests: thin films; coatings; nanomaterials; plasma processing and surface modification
Contribution:
Special Issue: Nanotribology and Atomic Mechanisms of Friction
Dr. Ardian Morina
School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
Tel. +44 1133 438965; Fax: +44 1132 424611
Website: http://www.engineering.leeds.ac.uk/people/ietsi/staff/a.morina
E-Mail: A.Morina@leeds.ac.uk
Interests: boundary lubrication; friction and wear; tribochemistry; surface analysis; tribology of coatings
Prof. Dr. Anne Neville
Institute of Engineering Thermofluids, Surfaces and Interfaces (iETSI), School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
Tel. +44 1133 436812
E-Mail: a.neville@leeds.ac.uk
Interests: corrosion and tribo-corrosion; lubrication and wear; mineral scaling
Prof. Dr. Martin Priest
School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
Tel. +44 1133 432178; Fax: +44 1132 424611
Website: http://www.engineering.leeds.ac.uk/people/mechanical/staff/m.priest
E-Mail: M.Priest@leeds.ac.uk
Interests: fundamental studies of lubrication, friction and wear; application of tribology to engineering system design; tribology of internal combustion engines
Prof. Dr. Lev Rapoport
Department of Sciences, HIT - Holon Academic Institute of Technology, 52 Golomb Street, Holon 58102, Israel
Tel. +972 3 502 6616; Fax: +972 3 502 6619
Website: http://sciences.hit.ac.il/people/profiles/~lrapoport.htm
E-Mail: rapoport@hit.ac.il
Interests: interaction between structure and lubricant regimes; nanoparticles in tribology; coatings; thin films; friction and wear mechanisms
Prof. Dr. Thomas W. Scharf
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of North Texas, 1155 Union Circle #305310 Denton, TX 76203-5017, USA
Tel. +1 940 891 6837; Fax: +1 940 565 4824
Website: http://mtse.unt.edu/Scharf/
E-Mail: scharf@unt.edu
Interests: tribology; coatings; solid lubricants; self-lubricating composites; ceramic-metal composites; high temperature solid lubrication; carbon-based coatings; molecular dynamics studies on friction; electron microscopy characterization studies
Prof. Dr. Paul Shayler
Department of Mechanical, Materials and Manufacturing Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK
Tel. +44 1159 513781
Website: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/engines-group/
E-Mail: paul.shayler@nottingham.ac.uk
Interests: friction in internal combustion engines; lubrication and lubricant formulation
Prof. Dr. Gwidon Stachowiak
School of Mechanical and Chemical Engineering, The University of Western Australia (M050), 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia
Tel. +1 6488 3119; Fax: +1 6488 1024
E-Mail: gwidon.stachowiak@uwa.edu.au
Interests: tribology; surface topography characterization; wear and friction; numerical methods in tribology
Prof. Dr. Margaret Stack
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Strathclyde, James Weir Building, 75 Montrose St., Glasgow, G1 1XJ, UK
Tel. +44 1415 483754; Fax: +44 1415 525105
Website: http://www.mecheng.strath.ac.uk/staffmember.asp?name=Stack,M
E-Mail: margaret.stack@strath.ac.uk
Interests: interactions of solid particle erosion and wear of materials in corrosive environments with specific emphasis on the development of mapping techniques for understanding the mechanisms of materials loss
Prof. Dr. Tadeusz Stolarski
School of Engineering and Design, Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middlesex, UB8 3PH, UK
Website: http://www.brunel.ac.uk/sed/mecheng/people/proftadeuszstolarski
E-Mail: tadeusz.stolarski@brunel.ac.uk
Interests: surface mechanics and tribology; high speed air bearings; boundary lubrication - analytical models; dry face seals; surface fatigue of coatings; acoustic bearings
Dr. Shinji Yamada
New Industry Creation Hatchery Center, Tohoku University, 6-6-10 Aoba, Aramaki, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8579, Japan
Tel. +81 22 217 6152; Fax: +81 22 217 6152
Website: http://www.tohoku-timt.net/tribology/index.html
E-Mail: yamada.s@niche.tohoku.ac.jp
Interests: nanotribology; confined liquids; surface forces apparatus; stick-slip friction
Dr. Boris Zhmud
Applied Nano Surfaces, Knivstagatan 12, SE-75323 Uppsala, Sweden
Tel. +46 70 9371310
Website: http://www.appliednanosurfaces.com
E-Mail: boris.zhmud@appliednanosurfaces.com
Interests: lubricant formulations (engine oils, metalworking emulsions); solubility and lubricity issues; additives and surface chemistry
Contribution:
Special Issue: Additives for Lubricants
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