Announcement - 2020 JAST Best Paper Award -

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The Japanese Society of Tribologists is pleased to announce that the 2020 Best Paper Award of the Society was awarded to the following papers from Tribology Online. The Award was presented to the authors by Prof. Joichi Sugimura, the President of the Japanese Society of Tribologists, at the award ceremony in the JAST Annual Meeting on 25th May, 2021, held online.The titles and the authors of the awarded papers. The pictures are those captured at the award ceremony.◊ “Intercalation Technology for Preparing a Mica–Organic Hybrid Solid Lubricant and Spectroscopic Evaluation of Its Lubrication Mechanism,” by Kenichiro Oshita, Shinobu Komiyama and Shinya Sasaki, Tribology Online, Vol. 14, No. 5 (2019) 312-320.◊ “Lubrication Condition Monitoring of Practical Ball Bearings by Electrical Impedance Method,” by Taisuke Maruyama, Masayuki Maeda and Ken Nakano, Tribology Online, Vol. 14, No. 5 (2019) 327-338.◊ “Effect of Lubrication on Friction and Wear Properties of PEEK with Steel Counterparts,” by Go Tatsumi, Monica Ratoi, Yuji Shitara, Kiyomi Sakamoto and Brian G. Mellor, Tribology Online, Vol. 14, No. 5 (2019) 345-352.and◊ “Development of Highly Durable Sliding Triboelectric Nanogenerator Using Diamond-Like Carbon Films,” by Shreeharsha H. Ramaswamy, Ryusei Kondo, Weihang Chen, Ichihiro Fukushima and Junho Choi, Tribology Online, Vol. 15, No. 2 (2020) 89-97.Congratulations!The Best Paper Award 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 Journal of Japanese Society of Tribologists (Toraiborojisuto) and Tribology Online (TROL) for the previous three years. All papers that appeared in Toraiborojisuto and TROL for the three years are reviewed by the JAST Awards Committee.