Progress and Challenges in Lubrication: Green Tribology

Dear Colleagues,

We wish to invite you to submit your research in this Special Issue "Progress and Challenges in Lubrication: Green Tribology". Lubricants and lubrication ensure the reliability of machines and reduce the energy costs of running machines by decreasing friction. Therefore, desired contributions for this journal should be dedicated to environmentally friendly lubricants, with lubrication technologies based on green tribology being of particular relevance. Issues concerning the processing of waste fatty materials derived from vegetable and animal origins into lubricants have, thus far, been underinvestigated. Articles should disclose the features of biological lubricants, their application areas, advantages and disadvantages, as well as possibilities to reduce those disadvantages. A significant issue in solving lubrication problems concerns changing the properties of lubricants for use during operation, alongside the development and improvement of lubrication monitoring systems.

We look forward to works evaluating not only the influence of functional additives on the physical, mechanical and tribological properties of lubricants, but also the influence of lubricants on friction mechanisms, surface interactions and their degradation processes.

We invite authors working on biotribology issues to submit articles on lubrication problems in biological systems that do not only demand great responsibility, but also novel knowledge, welcoming such contributions in this Special Issue.

Prof. Dr. Juozas Padgurskas
Dr. Raimundas Rukuiža
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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