Lubricants 2022, 10(3), 32; https://doi.org/10.3390/lubricants10030032 - 22 Feb 2022
Best Paper Award
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce the winners of the “Lubricants 2021 Best Paper Award”. All papers published between 1 January 2021 and 31 December 2021 in Lubricants were considered for the award. After a thorough evaluation of the originality and significance of the papers, citations, and downloads, the two winning papers, which were nominated by an assessment committee and approved by the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Homer Rahnejat, were selected.
Review article:
Current Trends and Applications of Machine Learning in Tribology—A Review
By Authors: Max Marian and Stephan Tremmel
Lubricants 2021, 9(9),86; doi:10.3390/lubricants9090086
Research article:
By Authors: G. Nicholas, B. P. Clarke and R. S. Dwyer-Joyce
Lubricants 2021, 9(1), 6; doi: 10.3390/lubricants9010006
The winners (corresponding authors) will receive a certificate, CHF 300 and a chance to publish a paper free of charge in Lubricants in 2023 after peer review.
After very careful evaluation, only one research article and one review article were selected. On behalf of the assessment committee, I congratulate the winners on their accomplishments. We thank all the nominated research groups of the above exceptional papers for their contributions to Lubricants and the Award Committee for voting and helping with this award.
Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Dr. Homer Rahnejat, Lubricants
Lubricants 2021 Best Paper Award
Eligibility and Requirements
– All papers published in Lubricants will be eligible (Both regular and Special Issue submissions).
Past Winners
Year:
Winner
Modelling of Lubricated Electrical Contacts
Graphene-Based Nanomaterials as Lubricant Additives: A Review
Lubricants 2022, 10(10), 273; https://doi.org/10.3390/lubricants10100273 - 21 Oct 2022
Award Committee
Prof. Homer Rahnejat
Chairman
University of Central Lancashire
Winner
Max Marian and Stephan Tremmel
1 Engineering Design, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU), Martensstr. 9, 91058 Erlangen, Germany
2
Engineering Design and CAD, University of Bayreuth, Universitätsstr. 30, 95477 Bayreuth, Germany
G. Nicholas, B. P. Clarke and R. S. Dwyer-Joyce
Leonardo Centre for Tribology, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield S1 3JD, UK
Winner
Jeffrey R. Lince
Space Tribology Consulting
Jörg Schille
University of Applied Sciences Mittweida, Laserinstitut Hochschule Mittweida, Technikumplatz 17, 09648 Mittweida, Germany
Winner
Mehmet Z. Baykara
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California Merced, Merced, CA 95343, USA
Christoph Knauder
VIRTUAL VEHICLE Research Center, Inffeldgasse 21A, 8010 Graz, Austria
Michele Ciavarella
Department of Mechanics, Mathematics and Management, Politecnico di Bari, Via Orabona 4, 70125 Bari, Italy
Winner
Susan Perkin
Department of Chemistry, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QZ, UK
Biplav Acharya; Jacqueline Krim
Department of Physics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA
Rosa M. Espinosa-Marzal
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 205 N Matthews Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Award Committee
Prof. Homer Rahnejat
Chairman
University of Central Lancashire
