The Japanese Society of Tribologists is pleased to announce that the 2015 Paper Award of Tribology Online was awarded to:

“Tribological Properties of Copper Molybdate Powder Solid Lubricants under High Temperature Conditions,” by Yoshinori Takeichi, Masato Inada, Kentaro Minami, Masahiro Kawamura, Marian Dzimko, Vol. 10, No. 2 (2015) 127-137.

and

“Friction Modification by Shifting of Phonon Energy Dissipation in Solid Atoms,” by Seiji Kajita, Mamoru Tohyama, Hitoshi Washizu, Toshihide Ohmori, Hideyuki Watanabe, Shinichi Shikata, Vol. 10, No. 2 (2015) 156-161.

The Award Medals were presented to the authors by Prof. Takahisa Kato, the President of the Japanese Society of Tribologists, at the JAST Annual Meeting on 24th May, 2016.

The Paper Award of Tribology Online is given annually to the author(s), either the JAST members or non-members, of the paper(s) judged as the best paper(s) published in Tribology Online (TROL) for the previous three years. All papers that appeared in TROL for the three years are reviewed by the JAST Awards Committee.