TLT TRIBOL OGY & L UBRICA TION TECHNOL OGY SYSTEMS, STRATEGIES & RESEARCH FOR LUBRICATION PROFESSIONALS AN PUBLICATION | JUNE 2016 12 YEARS of publishing excellence HOW TRIBOLOGY TRANSFORMED THE 20TH CENTURY Our science’s role in the greatest technical breakthroughs of the last 100 years. MEET STLE’s NEW PRESIDENT Ali Erdemir with Argonne National Laboratory WEAR FUNDAMENTALS Characterizing the tribo-system LUBRICATION & NUCLEAR POWER Q&A with Bryan Johnson AUTOMOTIVE TRIBOLOGY Gas injection’s rapid growth SYNTHESIZING SUPER-SLICK SURFACES Reaching near-zero friction COATINGS & SURFACE TRIBOLOGY How they’re reshaping the world STLE PRESIDENT MARTIN WEBSTER Our year in review STLE Annual Meeting App Digital TLT: Sponsored this month by Afton Chemical Corp. at www.stle.org.