About
Dr. Monica Ratoi is the Lecturer in Lubrication Science. With 30 years of research experience in lubrication, tribology and nanotechnology at Imperial College, University of Oxford and nCATS she has established a strong track record and international reputation in these fields. She has published interdisciplinary research on the topics of organic friction modifiers and antiwear additives, Langmuir Blodgett and self-assembly layers, aqueous lubrication, lubricant nanoadditives, lubrication for hydrogen technology, lubrication of polymers and composites, nanotechnology and nanotoxicology. She has acted as expert advisor on Nanotechnology and evaluator for Nanotechnology Risk and Safety Monica has a long-established collaboration with the International Institute for Carbon-Neutral Energy Research in Japan and Hydrogenius Centre at Kyushu University in Japan.
Monica has received research funding and international prizes from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council UK and top international tribology societies: Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers US, Japanese Society of Tribologists, Taiho Kogyo Tribology Research Foundation Japan, Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science etc. for her cutting edge research. Her research is also funded by lubricant companies: ENEOS Japan, ExxonMobil US, Chevron Oronite US, Nanol Technologies Europe etc.
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Current research
Research project 'ExxonMobil lubricant development'
Project description:
Severe operating conditions in modern technologies accelerate the premature failure of the lubricated bearings in wind turbine drive trains, hydrogen compressors, automotive alternators etc. Early bearing failure occurs through various mechanisms of wear such as pitting, White Etching Cracks (WEC), frosting, fluting etc. The search for long term solutions to increase the fatigue life and thus the efficiency of technologies has recently intensified due to environmental and economic driving forces and has focused on the identification of the main culprits and their mechanism of action. This experimental project investigates the influence of electrical currents present in the tribological contact on contact fatigue, their interaction with lubricant components and the role of the tribofilms generated.
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Biography
Prizes
- 2020 JAST Best Paper Award (2021)
- Best Paper Award - International Tribology Conference Sendai 2019 (2019)
- Platinum Best Poster Award (2019)
- STLE Richard Booser Scholarship (2019)
- JSPS Funded Research (2013)