Call for Papers on Advances in Biotribology
An open call for a special issue about Biotribology for Tribology - Materials, Surfaces & Interfaces journal.
Guest Editor: Prof. Dr Alessandro Ruggiero, University of Salerno - [email protected]
Nowadays, issues of tribology related to the biological systems are extremely relevant, especially in situations where there is relative movement between the implanted biomaterials or between the implanted biomaterial and the natural tissues in physiological environments.
Recently, more and more innovative biomaterials, manufacturing techniques, and surface modification approaches have been introduced and, thus, their biotribological properties require investigation.
Moreover, to date, in silico approaches for the prediction of tribo-mechanical behaviour of artificial implants play a key role in the scientific community, justifying the growing interest of researchers in this direction devoted to the development of more and more accurate theoretical and numerical biomechanical and biotribological models.
This Special Issue aims to present a collection of full research and short communication papers which may address, but not be limited to, the following topics:
- In silico (bio) tribological, (bio) tribocorrosion and biomechanical models;
- New emerging biomaterials and their tribological behaviour;
- Experimental methods and mechanical measurements for characterising the biotribological and bio-tribo-corrosive properties of biomaterials;
- Surface treatments of biomaterials;
- Modelling the natural lubrication phenomena in biological systems;
- Tribological behaviour of bioinspired surfaces.
Prospective authors should review the publishing guidelines of the journal on its website: https://journals.sagepub.com/author-instructions/TRB and submit at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/trb.
For questions related to the special issue, email the special issue editor, Prof Dr Alessandro Ruggiero, at [email protected].
Deadline: February 15th 2025
