Announcement – The Paper Award of Tribology Online 2016 -

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The Japanese Society of Tribologists is pleased to announce that the Paper Award of Tribology Online 2016 was awarded to:◊ “Flexible Control and Coupling of Adhesion and Friction of Gecko Setal Array during Sliding,” by Yu Tian, Dashuai Tao, Noshir Pesika, Jin Wan, Yonggang Meng, and Xiangjun Zhang, Vol. 10, No. 2 (2015) 106-114.◊ “On the Magnitude of Load-Carrying Capacity of Textured Surfaces in Hydrodynamic Lubrication,” by Kazuyuki Yagi, Hajime Sato, and Joichi Sugimura, Vol. 10, No. 3 (2015) 232-245.and◊ “The Development to Control Simultaneously Viscosity and Separation Temperature of a Two Phase Lubricant for Practical Use,” by Kumiko Kamata, Yasushi Kawamura, Ryuji Maruyama, Eiji Nagatomi, and Hiroyuki Tazaki, Vol. 11, No. 1 (2016) 24-33.The Award Medals were presented to the attended authors at the award ceremony by Dr. Shiro Nakano, the President of the Japanese Society of Tribologists, at the JAST Annual Meeting on 16th May, 2017. The medals were mailed to all 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.