Tribology Letters is devoted to the development of the science of tribology and its applications, particularly focusing on publishing high-quality papers at the forefront of tribological science and that address the fundamentals of friction, lubrication, wear, or adhesion.  The journal facilitates communication and exchange of seminal ideas among thousands of practitioners who are engaged worldwide in the pursuit of tribology-based science and technology.

Editor-in-Chief:
Nicholas D. Spencer
Laboratory for Surface Science & Technology, ETH Hoenggerberg, Zurich, Switzerland
Editors:
David Burris
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, USA
Juliette Cayer-Barrioz
Ecole Centrale de Lyon, Laboratoire de Tribologie et Dynamique des Systèmes, CNRS, France
Ashlie Martini
School of Engineering, University of California Merced, USA 
Consulting Editor:
Gabor A. Somorjai
Dept. of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Editorial Board:
David Bogy, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, USA; Roland Bennewitz, Leibniz Institute for New Materials, Saarbrücken, Germany; Philippa Cann, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College London,UK; Robert W. Carpick, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA; Yip-Wah Chung, Dept. of Materials Science & Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA; Martin Dienwiebel, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Pfinztal, Germany; Andrew Gellman, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; Steven Granick, Center for Soft and Living Matter, National Institute for Science and Technology, Ulsan, Korea; Judith A. Harrison,US Naval Academy,Annapolis, MD, USA; Steven Hsu, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA; Ian M. Hutchings, University of Cambridge, Institute for Manufacturing, UK;Koji Kato, Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, Nihon University, Koriyama, Japan; Dae-Eun Kim, School of Mechanical Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea; Yoshitsugu Kimura, Tokyo, Japan; David A. King, University Chemical Laboratories, Cambridge, UK; Peter Kotvis, Benz Oil, Inc., Milwaukee, WI, USA; Jacqueline Krim, Dept. of Physics, North Carolina State University, Rayleigh NC, USA; Bruno Marchon, EpiBiome, Inc., South San Francisco, CA, USA; Othmar Marti, Abt. Experimentelle Physik, Universität Ulm, Germany; Jean Michel Martin, University Institute of France, Dept.of Materials and Surface Science, Laboratory of Tribology and System Dynamics, France; C. Matthew Mate,Chemical Engineering Department, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA; Denis Mazuyer, Ecole Centrale de Lyon, Laboratoire de Tribologie et Dynamique des Systèmes, UMR 5513 CNRS, France; Yonggang Meng, State Key Laboratory of Tribology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, P.R. China; Ernst Meyer, Institut für Physik der Universität Basel, Switzerland; Shigeyuki Mori, Faculty of Engineering, Iwate University, Japan; Nikolai Myshkin, Tribology Dept., Metal-Polymer Research Institute, Belarus National Academy of Sciences, Gomel, Belarus; J.B. Pethica, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland; Stanislav Plaza, Dept. of Chemical Technology and Environmental Protection, University of Lodz, Poland; Mark Rutland, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden; Miquel Salmeron, Center for Advanced Materials, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, CA, USA; W. Gregory Sawyer, University of Florida, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Gainesville, FL, USA;Irwin L. Singer, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, USA; Hugh Spikes, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College, London, UK; G.W. Stachowiak, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Curtin University, Perth, Australia; Frank E. Talke, University of California, San Diego, CA USA; Wilfred T. Tysoe, Dept. of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA; Martin Webster, Advanced Laboratory Sciences, Exxon Mobil R&E, Annandale, NJ USA; Kathryn J. Wahl, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC USA; Ward O. Winer, George G. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA; Junyan Zhang, State Key Laboratory of Solid Lubrication, Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, P.R. China; Karlheinz Zum Gahr, Institut für Werkstoffkunde II, Universität Karlsruhe, Germany