2014 年 1 巻 1 号 p. DSM0008
In the past 250 years, natural resources have been consumed with very high speed and the earth is seriously damaged and polluted. Tribology supported powerful and high speed machinery run by the energy from coal and oil in the period with technologies of saving energy and materials. Many kinds of resources reserves including those of energy and metals are being depleted within one hundred years. Revolutional technologies of sustainability and zero-emission are being strongly required in the world industries to establish new lifestyles of real health and sustainability for the eternal living of human beings and other lives in a symbiotic way. Tribology is expected to develop its science and technology for the needs in industries and support a new industrial revolution.
