1. Study of a Spherical-Pad Head Slider for Stable Low-Clearance Recording in Near-Contact Regime

   • Yuki Shimizu
   • Kyosuke Ono
   • Hidetoshi Anan

   Original Paper 28 March 2008 Pages: 161 - 167

   

2. Tribological Properties of Carbon Nanopearls Synthesized by Nickel-Catalyzed Chemical Vapor Deposition

   • C. N. Hunter
   • M. H. Check
   • A. A. Voevodin

   Original Paper 04 April 2008 Pages: 169 - 176

   

3. Fiber Wobbling Method for Dynamic Viscoelastic Measurement of Liquid Lubricant Confined in Molecularly Narrow Gaps

   • Shintaro Itoh
   • Kenji Fukuzawa
   • Yasunaga Mitsuya

   Original Paper 05 April 2008 Pages: 177 - 189

   

4. Sliding Wear of Electrically Conductive ZrO₂−WC Composites Against WC–Co Cemented Carbide

   • K. Bonny
   • P. De Baets
   • W. Liu

   Original Paper 19 April 2008 Pages: 191 - 198

   

5. Microscopic Frictional Response of Sodium Oleate Self-Assembled on Steel

   • Deepak Kumar
   • Sanjay Kumar Biswas

   Original Paper 15 April 2008 Pages: 199 - 204

   

6. Friction, Wear, and Aging of an Alkoxy-monolayer Boundary Lubricant on Silicon

   • M. P. Goertz
   • X.-Y. Zhu
   • J. E. Houston

   Original Paper 11 April 2008 Pages: 205 - 213

   

7. The Tribological Properties of Ionic Liquids Composed of Trifluorotris(pentafluoroethyl) Phosphate as a Hydrophobic Anion

   • Ichiro Minami
   • Mamoru Kita
   • Shigeyuki Mori

   Original Paper 01 May 2008 Pages: 215 - 223

   

8. A Model for Potential Adhesive Wear Particle at Sliding Inception of a Spherical Contact

   • J. Salib
   • Y. Kligerman
   • I. Etsion

   Original Paper 10 May 2008 Pages: 225 - 233