Announcement – The Paper Award of Tribology Online 2018 –

The Japanese Society of Tribologists is pleased to announce that the Paper Award of Tribology Online 2018was awarded to:◊ “Effect of Electric Field on Adhesion of Thermoplastic Resin against Steel Plate,” by Motoyuki Murashima, Noritsugu Umehara, Hiroyuki Kousaka, and Xingrui Deng, Tribology Online, Vol. 12, No. 2 (2017) 42-48.and◊ “Advanced Control of Frictional Properties on Paper Clutch Materials by a Combination of Friction Modifiers,” by Go Tatsumi, Shinji Hasegawa, and Yasushi Onumata, Tribology Online, Vol. 12, No. 3 (2017) 103-109.Congratulations!The Award Medals were presented to the authors by Prof. Toshiaki Wakabayashi, the President of the Japanese Society of Tribologists, at the award ceremony in the JAST Annual Meeting on 20th May, 2019. The medals were mailed to the authors who were unable to attend the ceremony.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