Green Tribology

Siwei Zhang is professor of Tribology and Mechanical Engineering at the China University of Petroleum in Beijing. He is the honorary director of the Chinese Society of Mechanical Engineering and the deputy director of the steering committee of the State Key Laboratory of Solid Lubrication of the Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He formerly served as the Chairman of the Chinese Tribology Institution (CTI) and the Chairman of the Advisory Committee of the CTI in succession.

His professional interests mainly include tribology, surfacial mechno-chemistry and oilfield equipment. He mostly conducted and super¬vised in tribology of polymers, friction materials, nano-tribology and tribological components of oilfield equipment. At the beginning of this century, he firstly proposed a new subject “Green Tribology” and advocated the development of this new branch of tribology, that is related to promote sustainable development of nature and society.

In 2009, he received the Brilliant Contribution Award in Tribology of Chinese Tribology Institution.