Interfacial Phenomena in Lubrication: From Tribochemistry to Superlubricity
A Special Issue of Lubricants (ISSN 2075-4442).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2027 | Viewed by 43
Editors
Interests: wear-resistant material; high-temperature friction and wear mechanism
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: wide temperature range; friction; wear; polysiloxane
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Superlubricity is described as an ideal state required to achieve negligible friction and wear. A great deal of attention has been paid to searching for new materials possessing superlubricity properties and exploring their inner mechanisms, involving incommensurate contact, Coulomb repulsion, electrohydrodynamic effects, hydration processes, and interfacial phenomena between sliding surfaces. Growing research efforts focus on revealing microscopic interfacial behaviors and tribochemical reactions during friction processes; however, incomplete understanding of cross-scale interfacial evolution laws limits the design of advanced lubricants and the engineering realization of stable superlubricity.
This Special Issue “Interfacial Phenomena in Lubrication: From Tribochemistry to Superlubricity” intends to unite both academic and industrial experts to advance frontier research on interfacial phenomena in lubrication and promote innovation in the application of superlubricity materials, thereby fostering new ideas for future research and expanding knowledge in this field.
Dr. Xiangli Wen
Dr. Luo Yue
Dr. Wenrui Liu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- superlubricity
- surface and interface analysis
- tribochemistry
- friction regulation
- advanced lubricating materials
- wear resistant lubrication
- friction mechanism
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