Environmentally Friendly and Biobased Lubricants

Brajendra K. Sharma has served as a senior research engineer at the Illinois Sustainable Technology Center (ISTC), Prairie Research Institute, University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign, since 2009. Dr. Sharma received a PhD in chemistry from the Indian Institute of Petroleum/Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University (India). Dr. Sharma is an associate technical editor of American Oil Chemists' Society's Journal of Surfactants and Detergents. Dr. Sharma holds five issued patents on biobased lubricants/additives and has authored/coauthored more than 140 peer-reviewed articles, proceedings, book chapters, and technical reports and more than 130 scientific abstracts.Girma Biresaw received a PhD in physical organic chemistry from the University of California-Davis, and spent four years as a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of California-Santa Barbara, investigating reaction kinetics and products in surfactant-based organized assemblies. He then joined the Aluminum Company of America as a scientist and conducted research in tribology, surface/colloid science, and adhesion for 12 years. Dr. Biresaw has authored/coauthored more than 270 invited and contributed scientific publications, including more than 80 peer-reviewed manuscripts, six patents, five edited books, more than 40 proceedings and book chapters, and more than 140 scientific abstracts.