Announcement – 2019 JAST Best Paper Award –

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The Japanese Society of Tribologists is pleased to announce that the Best Paper Award of the Society was awarded to the following papers from Tribology Online:◊ “In Situ Raman Observation of the Graphitization Process of Tetrahedral Amorphous Carbon Diamond-Like Carbon under Boundary Lubrication in Poly-Alpha-Olefin with an Organic Friction Modifier,” by Hikaru Okubo, Chiharu Tadokoro, Yuki Hirata and Shinya Sasaki, Tribology Online, Vol. 12, No. 5 (2017) 229-237.◊ “Study and Comparison of Lubricity of Green and Commercial Cutting Fluid Using Tool-Chip Tribometer,” by Suvin Parayantayyathu Somarajan and Satish Vasu Kailas, Tribology Online, Vol. 13, No. 6 (2018) 340-350.and◊ “A Study of the Lubrication under Impact Loading - Experimental and Analytical Application to Push Belt CVTs,” by Yuki Ono, Kenji Matsumoto and Yuji Mihara, Tribology Online, Vol. 14, No. 2 (2019) 18-23.Congratulations!The Award Medals and the Certificates were mailed to all the recipients instead of presented by the president of the Japanese Society of Tribologists at the award ceremony in the JAST Annual Meeting, which was supposed to be held in Tokyo on 26th May, 2020. We regret that the award ceremony was cancelled due to COVID-19.