Formulation, Manufacturing and Characterization of Advanced Bio-Lubricants

Dear colleagues,

I invite you to submit a manuscript to this Special Issue on formulation, manufacturing and characterization of advanced bio-lubricants.

From last decades, governments, lubricant manufactures and the scientific community around the world are continuously looking for more environmentally friendly lubricants, because of petroleum-derived products have finite resources and are harmful to the human health and the environment. In this sense, the most feasible bio-basestock come from seed oils.

Lubricants are made by combining a base oil with suitable additives that enhance inherent characteristics of the base oil or impart new performance properties to the blend. As lubricant is made up 75-95 wt.% of base oil, the most efforts are being made to overcome all the performance limitations of vegetable oil-based lubricants (low thermo-oxidative stabilities, narrow viscosity range, higher pour points, among others) and to make them a feasible alternative to petroleum-based lubricants. Consequently, current researches are generating successful knowledge to alleviate all these technical problems through both chemical modification of vegetable oils (esterification/transesterification, estolide formation, epoxidation, among others) and the use of additives. In this last case, nanoparticles are a type of effective additives which provides promising approach to enhance the lubricant properties and develop advanced bio-lubricants, such as improved lubrication mechanism, surface protection, magneto/electro-rheological and magneto/electro-tribological behaviour, among others. In addition to this, the cost-effective lubricant composition is an important challenge for lubricant development, therefore, special attention must be paid on the manufacturing of eco-friendly additives with multifunctional performance.

In general, this Special Issue aims to collect the latest progress in the field of formulation, manufacturing and characterization of advanced bio-lubricants. Special attention will be paid on research works based on the synthesis of improved lubricant basestocks from vegetable oils through chemical modification, the use of nanoparticles and multifunctional additives in the formulation of advanced bio-lubricants, and the rheological and tribological characterization of lubricants under the application of an electrical field. Investigations focused on bio-lubricants with electro-rheological or electro-tribological properties will be especially welcome.

Contributions from both academic and industrial research are welcome.

Prof. Dr. Miguel Ángel Delgado
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Lubricants is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

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• nanoparticles
• nanocellulose
• chemically modified vegetable oils
• electrorheological lubricant
• magnetorheological lubricants
• electrorheological characterization
• electrotribology
• dispersion of nanoparticles of cellulose in vegetable oils
• solvent change
• multifunctional additives