Special Issue "Additives for Lubricants"

Guest Editor
Prof. Dr. James E. Krzanowski
Mechanical Engineering Department, University of New Hampshire, Kingsbury Hall, 33 Academic Way, Durham, NH 03824, USA
Website: http://www.unh.edu/mechanical-engineering/me-faculty-staff/krzanowski_james
E-Mail: jamesk@cisunix.unh.edu
Phone: +1 603 862 2315
Fax: +1 603 862 1865
Interests: tribology; thin films; solid lubricants; wear mechanisms; hard coatings

Guest Editor
Dr. Boris Zhmud
Applied Nano Surfaces, Knivstagatan 12, SE-75323 Uppsala, Sweden
Website: http://www.appliednanosurfaces.com
E-Mail: boris.zhmud@appliednanosurfaces.com
Phone: +46 70 9371310
Interests: lubricant formulations (engine oils, metalworking emulsions); solubility and lubricity issues; additives and surface chemistry

Dear Colleagues,

Neither mineral nor synthetic base oils can satisfy today’s lubricant performance requirements without using additives. Additives are chemical substances, in most part synthetic, which are used in lubricant formulations to adjust a broad of spectrum of properties by enhancing what is desired and suppressing what is unwanted. Many additives are multifunctional products that may exhibit synergistic or antagonistic behavior when mixed together. As a rule of thumb, additives do not add. This makes balancing and optimization of additive systems a challenging task.

The increasing focus on energy efficiency and environmental safety of lubricants poses new challenges for lubricant formulators, preventing or restricting the use of certain time-proven chemistries, such as ZDDP in engine oil or boric acid in MWF formulations. At the same time, it stimulates the search for new classes of additives, including all-organic ashless friction modifiers, nano-additives, and bio-based superlubricity additives, as well as fundamental studies into how individual additives work.

This special issue will examine current advances and future trends in lubricant additives. Contributions are solicited both from academic researchers working in the field of tribology and lubrication science and their industrial peers dealing with additive adpack development and lubricant formulation. The idea is to promote bi-directional information exchange whereby some practical challenges faced by lubricant industry are presented to university researchers and novel additive chemistries are exposed to industrial researchers and formulators involved in product development.

Prof. Dr. James E. Krzanowski
Dr. Boris Zhmud
Guest Editors

Submission

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• lubricant additives
• friction modifiers
• superlubricity
• additive chemistry
• synthetic oils