Contributors

Volker Altstdt
Polymer Engineering, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
Shyam Bahadur
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA
Jayashree Bijwe
Industrial Tribology Machine Dynamics & Maintenance Engineering Centre,
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, Hauz Khas, New Delhi, India
Qing Bing Guo
College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Zhongkai University of
Agriculture and Engineering, Guangzhou, PR China
Thierry A. Blanchet
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY, USA
Sergei P. Bogdanovich
V.A. Belyi MetalPolymer Research Institute of National Academy of Sciences
of Belarus, Gomel, Belarus
Brian J. Briscoe
Department of Chemical Engineering & Chemical Technology, Imperial College,
London, UK
Robert L. Browning
Polymer Technology Center, Texas A&M University, USA
David L. Burris
University of Florida, FL, USA
Michael Busse
Lehrstuhl fr Verbundwerkstoffe, Composite Engineering cCe, University of
Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany
Li Chang
Centre for Advanced Materials Technology, The University of Sydney, Sydney,
NSW, Australia
Zhong Chen
School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological
University, Singapore
Namita Roy Choudhury
Ian Wark Research Institute, ARC Special Research Centre for Particle and
Material Interfaces, University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes, South
Australia, Australia

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Christian Coddet
University of Technology of Belfort-Montbeliard, Belfort, France
Li Dan
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing,
PR China
Aravind Dasari
School of Materials Science & Engineering, Nanyang Technological University,
Singapore
Dongfeng Diao
School of Mechanical Engineering, Xian Jiaotong University, Xian, China
Naba Dutta
Ian Wark Research Institute, ARC Special Research Centre for Particle and
Material Interfaces, University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes, South
Australia, Australia
Dvid Felhs
Department of Polymer Engineering, Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Miskolc, Miskolc, Hungary
Klaus Friedrich
Institute for Composite Materials (IVW GmbH), Technical University of
Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany; and College of Engineering, King
Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Andreas Gebhard
NanoProfile GmbH, Kaiserslautern, Germany
Frank Haupert
Hochschule Hamm-Lippstadt, Hamm, Germany
Werner Hufenbach
Technische Universitt Dresden, Institute fr Leichtbau und Kunstofftechnik,
Dresden, Germany
Eiji Iwamura
R&D Center, Arakawa Chemical Industries, Ltd, Tsurumi-ku, Osaka, Japan
Olaf Jacobs
Fachhochschule Lbeck, Lbeck, Germany
Liang Ji
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, PR China
Han Jiang
Polymer Technology Center, Dept. Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M
University, College Station, TX, USA

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Aravindaraj G. Kannan
Ian Wark Research Institute, ARC Special Research Centre for Particle and
Material Interfaces, University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes, South
Australia, Australia
Jzsef Karger-Kocsis
MTA-BME Research Group for Composite Science and Technology and
Department of Polymer Engineering, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering,
Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary
Koji Kato
Department Mechanical Engineering, Nihon University, Koriyama City, Japan
Lszl Knya
Institute of Machine Design Budapest University of Technology and Economics,
Budapest, Hungary
Klaus Kunze
Technische Universitt Dresden, Institute fr Leichtbau und Kunstofftechnik,
Dresden, Germany
Albert Langkamp
Technische Universitt Dresden, Institute fr Leichtbau und Kunstofftechnik,
Dresden, Germany
Sarah L. Lewis
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY, USA
Hanlin Liao
University of Technology of Belfort-Montbeliard, Belfort, France
Xinxing Liu
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY, USA
Ying Luo
College of Science, South China Agriculture University, Guangzhou, PR China
Yiu-Wing Mai
Centre for Advanced Materials Technology (CAMT), School of Aerospace,
Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering, The University of Sydney, Sydney,
NSW, Australia
Nikolai K. Myshkin
V.A. Belyi MetalPolymer Research Institute of National Academy of Sciences
of Belarus, Gomel, Belarus
Xianqiang Pei
Laboratory of Solid Lubrication, Lanzhou Institute for Chemical Physics,
Lanzhou, China

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Scott S. Perry
University of Florida, FL, USA
Stepan S. Pesetskii
V.A. Belyi MetalPolymer Research Institute of National Academy of Sciences
of Belarus, Gomel, Belarus
Gong Qianming
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, PR China
Min Zhi Rong
Materials Science Institute, Sun Yat-sen (Zhongshan) University, Guangzhou,
PR China
Holger Ruckdschel
Polymer Engineering, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
Jan K.W. Sandler
Polymer Engineering, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
Katherine Santos
University of Florida, FL, USA
W. Gregory Sawyer
University of Florida, FL, USA
Birgit Schdel
Fachhochschule Lbeck, Lbeck, Germany
Linda S. Schadler
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY, USA
Alois K. Schlarb
Lehrstuhl fr Verbundwerkstoffe, Composite Engineering cCe, University of
Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany
Cris J. Schwartz
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA
Mohit Sharma
Industrial Tribology Center, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India
Sujeet K. Sinha
Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore,
Singapore
Hung-Jue Sue
Polymer Technology Center, Dept. Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M
University, College Station, TX, USA

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Kroly Vradi
Institute of Machine Design Budapest University of Technology and Economics,
Budapest, Hungary
Qihua Wang
Laboratory of Solid Lubrication, Lanzhou Institute for Chemical Physics,
Lanzhou, China
Linda Y.L. Wu
Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology, Singapore
Yi Xiaosu
Beijing Institute of Aeronautical Materials, Beijing, PR China
Lin Ye
Centre for Advanced Materials Technology, The University of Sydney, Sydney,
NSW, Australia
Zhong-Zhen Yu
State Key Laboratory of Organic-Inorganic Composites, Department of Polymer
Engineering, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing University of
Chemical Technology, Beijing, China
Zhong Zhang
National Center for NanoScience and Technology, Beijing, China
Ming Qiu Zhang
Key Laboratory for Polymeric Composite and Functional Materials of Ministry of
Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Sun Yat-sen
(Zhongshan) University, Guangzhou, PR China; Materials Science Institute, Sun
Yat-sen (Zhongshan) University, Guangzhou, PR China
Ga Zhang
Institute for Composite Materials (IVW GmbH), Technical University Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany
Li Zhi
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, PR China

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