Best Paper Award

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the “Lubricants 2024 Best Paper Award”. All papers published between 1 January 2022 and 31 December 2022 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:
Graphene-Based Nanomaterials as Lubricant Additives: A Review
By Authors: Qiulong Gao, Shuwen Liu, Kaiming Hou, Zhangpeng Li and Jinqing Wang
Lubricants 2022, 10(10), 273; doi:10.3390/lubricants10100273

Research article:
Modelling of Lubricated Electrical Contacts
By Authors: Robert L. Jackson and Santosh Angadi
Lubricants 2022, 10(3), 32; doi:10.3390/lubricants10030032

The winners (corresponding authors) will receive a certificate, CHF 300 and a chance to publish a paper free of charge in Lubricants in 2024 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 2024 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

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
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