Ken'ichi Hiratsuka
Ken’ichi Hiratsuka is a professor in the Department of Innovative Mechanical and Electronic Engineering, Chiba Institute of Technology, Japan. His research focuses on the fundamental mechanisms of the interactions among solids and environmental gases, e.g., wear particle formation. His scientific activities encompass the physics and chemistry of tribological interfaces: triboelectrification, triboluminescence, tribochemistry, and tribocatalysis. He is currently the chair of the technical committee on wear research of the Japanese Society of Tribologists.