Best Paper Award

The editorial team would like to congratulate the winners of the Lubricants 2019 Best Paper Award, who were chosen by the Journal Awards Committee, chaired by the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Homer Rahnejat.

The following papers, in no particular order, won first prize in the Lubricants 2021 Best Paper Award:

Solid Lubrication with MoS2: A Review
doi:10.3390/lubricants7070057
Available online at: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4442/7/7/57

Investigations of the Friction Losses of Different Engine Concepts. Part 1: A Combined Approach for Applying Subassembly-Resolved Friction Loss Analysis on a Modern Passenger-Car Diesel Engine
doi:10.3390/lubricants7050039
Available online at: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4442/7/5/39

A Discussion on Present Theories of Rubber Friction, with Particular Reference to Different Possible Choices of Arbitrary Roughness Cutoff Parameters
doi:10.3390/lubricants7100085
Available online at: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4442/7/10/85

In recognition of their accomplishment, each Best Paper Award winner will receive a certificate, 300 CHF, and an opportunity to publish a paper in Lubricants free of charge in open access format, after the standard peer review process.

Please join us in congratulating the winners of the Lubricants 2019 Best Paper Award. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all our authors for their continued support of Lubricants.

Kind regards,
Lubricants Editorial Office

 
Lubricants 2019 Best Paper Award
 

Eligibility and Requirements

– All papers published in Lubricants will be eligible (Both regular and Special Issue submissions).
 
Past Winners
 
Year: 

Winner

18 pages, 2207 KiB  
Article
Modelling of Lubricated Electrical Contacts
by Robert L. Jackson and Santosh Angadi
Lubricants 2022, 10(3), 32; https://doi.org/10.3390/lubricants10030032 - 22 Feb 2022
32 pages, 7438 KiB  
Review
Graphene-Based Nanomaterials as Lubricant Additives: A Review
by Qiulong Gao, Shuwen Liu, Kaiming Hou, Zhangpeng Li and Jinqing Wang
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

22 pages, 10936 KiB  
Article
Detection of Lubrication State in a Field Operational Wind Turbine Gearbox Bearing Using Ultrasonic Reflectometry
by G. Nicholas, B. P. Clarke and R. S. Dwyer-Joyce
Lubricants 2021, 9(1), 6; https://doi.org/10.3390/lubricants9010006 - 6 Jan 2021
32 pages, 6557 KiB  
Review
Current Trends and Applications of Machine Learning in Tribology—A Review
by Max Marian and Stephan Tremmel
Lubricants 2021, 9(9), 86; https://doi.org/10.3390/lubricants9090086 - 1 Sep 2021

Winner

20 pages, 12418 KiB  
Article
High-Rate Laser Surface Texturing for Advanced Tribological Functionality
by Jörg Schille, Lutz Schneider, Stefan Mauersberger, Sylvia Szokup, Sören Höhn, Johannes Pötschke, Friedemann Reiß, Erhard Leidich and Udo Löschner
Lubricants 2020, 8(3), 33; https://doi.org/10.3390/lubricants8030033 - 20 Mar 2020
56 pages, 6101 KiB  
Review
Effective Application of Solid Lubricants in Spacecraft Mechanisms
by Jeffrey R. Lince
Lubricants 2020, 8(7), 74; https://doi.org/10.3390/lubricants8070074 - 10 Jul 2020

Winner

35 pages, 14491 KiB  
Article
Investigations of the Friction Losses of Different Engine Concepts. Part 1: A Combined Approach for Applying Subassembly-Resolved Friction Loss Analysis on a Modern Passenger-Car Diesel Engine
by Christoph Knauder, Hannes Allmaier, David E. Sander and Theodor Sams
Lubricants 2019, 7(5), 39; https://doi.org/10.3390/lubricants7050039 - 26 Apr 2019
12 pages, 2678 KiB  
Article
A Discussion on Present Theories of Rubber Friction, with Particular Reference to Different Possible Choices of Arbitrary Roughness Cutoff Parameters
by Andrea Genovese, Flavio Farroni, Antonio Papangelo and Michele Ciavarella
Lubricants 2019, 7(10), 85; https://doi.org/10.3390/lubricants7100085 - 26 Sep 2019
35 pages, 8727 KiB  
Review
Solid Lubrication with MoS2: A Review
by Mohammad R. Vazirisereshk, Ashlie Martini, David A. Strubbe and Mehmet Z. Baykara
Lubricants 2019, 7(7), 57; https://doi.org/10.3390/lubricants7070057 - 2 Jul 2019

Winner

18 pages, 3364 KiB  
Article
Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Lubrication by Ionic Liquids: Activated Slip and Flow
by Mengwei Han and Rosa M. Espinosa-Marzal
Lubricants 2018, 6(3), 64; https://doi.org/10.3390/lubricants6030064 - 20 Jul 2018
14 pages, 3716 KiB  
Article
Synergistic Effect of Nanodiamond and Phosphate Ester Anti-Wear Additive Blends
by Biplav Acharya, Keshav S. Avva, Binita Thapa, Tyler N. Pardue and Jacqueline Krim
Lubricants 2018, 6(2), 56; https://doi.org/10.3390/lubricants6020056 - 18 Jun 2018
12 pages, 3192 KiB  
Review
Are Ionic Liquids Good Boundary Lubricants? A Molecular Perspective
by Romain Lhermerout, Christophe Diederichs and Susan Perkin
Lubricants 2018, 6(1), 9; https://doi.org/10.3390/lubricants6010009 - 16 Jan 2018

Award Committee

Prof. Homer Rahnejat Chairman
University of Central Lancashire
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