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Tribology & Lubrication Technology
November 2026


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This issue of the digital TLT is sponsored by Acme-Hardesty.

FEATURES

20 MINUTES (STLE MEMBER BONUS CONTENT)
20 Minutes With Ajay Kumar Harinarain
This career tribologist at Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. discusses tribotesting, the challenges of e-mobility and his work with the Tribology Society of India.
 

20 MINUTES
20 Minutes With Andreas Rosenkranz
This professor at the University of Chile discusses micro-/macro-tribology, MXenes, coatings, hydrodynamic lubrication and more.
 

MARKET TRENDS
Electric vehicle fluids: Where the opportunities are
Success depends less on creating a single new product category and more on understanding how OEMs specify thermal management, electrical safety and system-level performance across different vehicle architectures.
 

LUBRICATION FUNDAMENTALS
Measuring fuel efficiency
Lubricants help enable engine technology designed to improve fuel efficiency.
 

FEATURE
In a circular economy, everything old becomes new again
The lubricant market is seeing an attitude shift from "take, make, dispose" toward "recondition, re-refine, reuse, repeat."
 

TECH BEAT I
New material degradation pathway: Electrified damage
The growing use of electrified machinery means that damage caused by this phenomena must also be accounted for by end-users.
 

TECH BEAT II
Conversion of plastic waste to hydrogen using photocatalytic reforming
Two catalysts were used in combination to oxidize the organic compounds contained in plastic waste and produce hydrogen.
 

TECH BEAT III
Analysis of a commercial sodium-ion battery
The most widely used sodium-ion battery in commerce was evaluated to better understand its performance and limitations.
 

SOUNDING BOARD
Additives
Readers share their insights on additives.