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We are delighted to announce that the 1^st International Conference on Biotribology and Bionic-tribology (ICoBB 2024) will be held in Chengdu, China on Sept. 11-13, 2024. The International Conference on BioTribology (ICoBT) and the International Symposium on Biosurface, Biotribology and Bionic-tribology (ISBBB) were integrated to form ICoBB 2024.

Biotribology and Bionic-tribology play important roles in many aspects of our everyday life and engineering applications, from the functioning of natural organs and the service life of medical implants to the control of friction and wear of engineering equipment. It is a multidisciplinary field which combines materials, surface science, mechanical engineering and biomechanics. The aim of the ICoBB therefore is to bring together researchers from across the scientific, engineering and clinical spectrum, to promote communication across the different disciplines and to provide a platform for the presentation of new research in recent years.

The theme of ICoBB 2024 includes but not limited to the following topics: natural and artificial joints; oral tribology; skin tribology; wear resistance of natural materials; bioinspired design for anti-wear or drag reduction; bioinspired adhesion; bioinspired interfaces with superwettability; surface engineering of biomaterials and etc.

Zhong-rong Zhou (Southwest Jiaotong University, China),

Marc Masen (Imperial College London, UK),

Markus Wimmer (Rush University Medical Center, USA),

Zhongmin Jin (Southwest Jiaotong University, China; University of Leeds, UK)

Mike Bryant（University of Leeds, United Kingdom）

Dave Burris（University of Florida, United States）

Huawei Chen (Beihang University, China)

Zhendong Dai (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China)

Alison Dunn（University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, United States）

Vincent Fridrici (Ecole Centrale de Lyon, France)

Stas Gorb（Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany）

Shirong Ge (China University of Mining and Technology, China)

Zhiguang Guo (Hubei University, China)

Zhiwu Han (Jilin University, China)

Fujie Hiromichi (Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan)

Mark Hoffman (University of Newcastle, Australia)

Satish Kailas（Indian Institute of Science, Indian）

Roger Lewis (University of Sheffield, UK)

David Necas（Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic）

Robin Pourzal（RUSH University, United States）

Yoshinori Sawae (Kyushu University, Japan)

Cris Schwartz（Iowa State University, United States）

Ana Paula Serro（Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal）

Prashant K Sharma (University of Groningen, Netherland)

Nick Spencer（Flinders University, Australia）

Jason Stokes（School of Chemical Engineering, Australia）

Yu Tian (Tsinghua University, China)

Joanne Tipper (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)

Peter S. Ungar (University of Arkansas, USA)

Zuankai Wang (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China)

Hongbo Zeng (University of Alberta, Canada)

Jing Zheng (Southwest Jiaotong University, China)

Feng Zhou (Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics CAS, China)

........ (more to be added)

Journal of Biosurface and Biotribology ( ESCI/EI/Scopus indexed)

Chinese Tribology Institute, Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society (CMES)

All the participants are encouraged to submit full papers for publication in special issue of Biosurface and Biotribology, subject to standard peer-review process. The date of submission for SI starts from Dec. 1 2023. https://ietresearch.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/24054518  Email: bsbt@swjtu.edu.cn