Synergistic Approaches to Surface Modification, Lubrication, and Wear Control

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue brings together recent advances in experimental studies, modelling approaches, and practical case analyses in the field of tribology. Contributions address a wide range of topics, including novel material pairings, surface engineering techniques, the lubrication process and self-organization at the friction surfaces. By uniting perspectives from materials science, mechanical or even mechatronic engineering, and applied tribology, this collection aims to provide new insights into how materials compatibility governs reliable tribological system performance and to highlight pathways toward additional, efficient, and sustainable tribological designs.

The goal of the collection is to disclose in the articles the features of tribological systems, highlight self-organization of the friction surfaces using self-lubricating composite materials, other materials with exceptional functional properties, their advantages and disadvantages, as well as possibilities to reduce these obstructions.

We are very much looking forward for contributions that will assess not only and not so much the influence of the material production technology on the physical and mechanical properties, but also the mechanisms of tribological system material behaviour during friction, and improving of the material properties.

In particular, the topics of interest of this Special Issue include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Self-organization at the friction surfaces;
• Advanced material properties for wear control;
• Self-lubricating materials;
• Biodegradable and composite materials for tribo-systems;
• Green tribology materials.

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

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