Recent Advances in Lubricating Greases
A special issue of Lubricants (ISSN 2075-4442).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2020) | Viewed by 6639
Special Issue Editor
Interests: tribology; lubricating grease; energetic approach
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Dear Colleagues,
Lubricating greases are markedly visco-elastical lubricants with a special tribological behavior, but with a wide range of application. Our research work has, more or less, two main directions: understanding the behavior of greases during tribology stress, and furthering knowledge of the behavior of greases in concrete machine element applications. In the course of this work, opportunities were also created to develop new lubricants such as biodegradable and completely biogenic lubricating greases.
In recent years, work on the structural degradation of lubricating greases has increasingly been carried out. This has led to a new research focus on lubricating grease tribology. Energetical investigations seem to be an appropriate tool with which to obtain new information.
The success of the Special Issue of Lubricating Greases in 2017 (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/lubricants/special_issues/greases2017) encouraged us to continue this interesting topic.
We hope researchers will accept our invitation and present their research work.
Prof. Dr. Erik Kuhn
Guest Editor
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