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Wilian da Silva Labiapari is a Senior Researcher at the Research Centre of Aperan South America SA. He received his B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Instituto Católico de Minas Gerais and his M.Sc. degree in Metallurgy from the Federal University of Minas Gerais. In 2015, he received his Engineering degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Federal University of Uberlandia. Dr Labiapari has 28 years of experience on the production and development of stainless steel. During this time he has being working on refining processes (at the melt shop), in cold rolling, heat treatment and pickling processes (at the industrial line), and more recently in wear/corrosion processes applied to the bio-fuel industry.

Henara Lillian Costa is an Associate Professor at the School of Engineering, Federal University of Rio Grande since February 2016. Previously, she was an Associate Professor at the Laboratory of Tribology and Materials, Universidade Federal de Uberlandia, Brazil, from where she obtained her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Mechanical Engineering. She obtained her PhD from Cambridge University, UK (2005). In 2007, she developed a short research work on surface texturing by inkjet printing under a grant from the Royal Society. In 2013, she spent a sabbatical leave at Imperial College London, investigating the effects of ethanol on the lubrication of flex-fuel engines. Her main interests are surface engineering, in particular surface texturing and solid lubrication, wear, tribocorrosion and, more recently, lubrication.

José Daniel Biasoli de Mello is an Emeritus Professor at the School of Mechanical Engineering at the Federal University of Uberlândia, Brazil and visiting professor at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianopolis, Brazil. He received his B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Federal University of Uberlândia. In 1983, he received his Doc. Ing. degree in metallurgy from the École Nationale Supérieure d’Electrochimie et Electrométallurgie - Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble, Grenoble, France. He is also rated as a top researcher by the Brazilian National Research Council (CNPQ), Brazil. He acted as Professeur Associé in the École Nationale Supérieure de Mécanique et Microtechniques, Besançon, France (1990). In 1998-1999, he worked as a visiting scholar at the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, UK. In 2007 he worked as a Fulbright visiting professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. Professor De Mello has published more than 250 full papers in proceedings of national (Brazilian) and internationals conferences, congresses and journals. His current research is on tribo-corrosion, abrasion-corrosion, surface durability of solid lubricants and tribological behaviour of sintered material.