Friction is a single-blind peer-reviewed open access journal for the publication of theoretical and experimental research works related to the friction, lubrication and wear. Original, high quality research papers and review articles on all aspects of tribology are welcome, including, but are not limited to, a variety of topics, such as:

• Friction: Origin of friction, Friction theories, New phenomena of friction, Nano-friction, Ultra-low friction, Molecular friction, Ultra-high friction, Friction at high speed, Friction at high temperature or low temperature, Friction at solid/liquid interfaces, Bio-friction, Adhesion, etc.
• Lubrication: Superlubricity, Green lubricants, Nano-lubrication, Boundary lubrication, Thin film lubrication, Elastohydrodynamic lubrication, Mixed lubrication, New lubricants, New additives, Gas lubrication, Solid lubrication, etc.
• Wear: Wear materials, Wear mechanism, Wear models, Wear in severe conditions, Wear measurement, Wear monitoring, etc.
• Surface Engineering: Surface texturing, Molecular films, Surface coatings, Surface modification, Bionic surfaces, etc.
• Basic Sciences: Tribology system, Principles of tribology, Thermodynamics of tribo-systems, Micro-fluidics, Thermal stability of tribo-systems, etc.

Friction is an open access journal. It is published monthly by Tsinghua University Press and Springer, and sponsored by the State Key Laboratory of Tribology (Tsinghua University) and the Tribology Institute of Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society.

research papers and review articles

Honorary Editors
Ali Erdemir (Texas A&M University, USA)
Shizhu Wen (Tsinghua University, China)

Editor-in-Chief
Jianbin Luo (Tsinghua University, China)

Associate Editors
Zhongmin Jin (University of Leeds, UK & Xi'an Jiaotong University, China)
Yonggang Meng (Tsinghua University, China)
Hongbo Zeng (University of Alberta, Canada)

Editorial Board Members
Li Chang (The University of Sydney, Australia)
Enrico Ciulli (University of Pisa, Italy)
Zhendong Dai (Nanjing University Aeronautics and Astronautics, China)
José Daniel Biasoli de Mello (Universidade Federal de Uberlandia, Brazil)
Dongfeng Diao (Shenzhen University, China)
Jianning Ding (Changzhou University, China)
Kuniaki Dohda (Northwestern University, USA)
Nuria Espallargas (Norwegian Univ Sci & Technol, Norway)
Nicolas Fillot (Lyon University, France)
Friedrich Franek (AC2T Research GmbH - Excellence Centre of Tribology, Austria)
Carsten Gachot (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
Shirong Ge (China University of Mining and Technology, China)
Ille C. Gebeshuber (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
Irina Goryacheva (Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia)
Itzhak Green (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
Feng Guo (Qingdao Technological University, China)
Wanlin Guo (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China)
Martin Hartl (Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic)
Kenneth Holmberg (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland)
Stephen Hsu (George Washington University, USA）
Georg Jacobs (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
Satish V. Kailas (Indian Institute of Science, India)
Dae Eun Kim (Yonsei University, R. O. Korea)
Seong H. Kim (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
Jacob Klein (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
Roland Larsson (Luleå University of Technology, Sweden)
Mingkai Lei (Dalian University of Technology, China)
Jian Li (Wuhan Research Institute of Materials Protection, China)
Jinjin Li (Tsinghua University, China)
Hong Liang (Texas A&M University, USA)
Erjia Liu (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Weimin Liu (Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Xinchun Lu (Tsinghua University, China)
Jean Michel Martin (Ecole Centrale de Lyon, France)
Nikolai K. Myshkin (Belarus National Academy of Sciences, Belarus)
Lars Pastewka (University of Freiburg, Germany)
Valentin L. Popov (Berlin University of Technology, Germany)
Braham Prakash (Luleå University of Technology, Sweden)
Linmao Qian (Southwest Jiaotong University, China)
Jun Qu (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA)
Tianmin Shao (Tsinghua University, China)
Hugh A Spikes (Imperial College London, UK)
Yu Tian (Tsinghua University, China)
Simon C. Tung (Tung Innovation Technology Consulting Inc., USA)
Rajnesh Tyagi (Indian Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, India)
Noritsugu Umehara (Nagoya University, Japan)
Emile van der Heide (University of Twente, Netherlands)
Haidou Wang (Academy of Armored Force Engineering, China)
Jiadao Wang (Tsinghua University, China)
Liqin Wang (Harbin Institute of Technology, China)
Qian Jane Wang (Northwestern University, USA)
Robert J. K. Wood (University of Southampton, UK)
Guoxin Xie (Tsinghua University, China)
Qunji Xue (Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Liping Wang (Ningbo Institute of Materials Tecnology & Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Patrick Wong (City University of Hong Kong, China)
Xinping Yan (Wuhan University of Technology, China)
Bo Zhang (Saga University, Japan)
Chenhui Zhang (Tsinghua University, China)
Junyan Zhang (Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Siwei Zhang (China University of Petroleum, China)
Yongzhen Zhang (Henan University of Science and Technology, China)
Zhenyu Zhang (Dalian University of Technology, China)
Yapu Zhao (Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Feng Zhou (Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Minhao Zhu (Southwest Jiaotong University, China)

Communication Editors
Yuanzhong Hu (Tsinghua University, China)
Jun Xu (Tsinghua University, China)
Managing Editor
He Chen (Tsinghua University Press, China)

Publishing Editor
Yu Liu (Tsinghua University Press, China)