Three ESRs (Andrea Silva, Paola Torche and Victor Claerbout) presented contributions at the International Tribology Conference (ITC) held in Sendai, Japan from 17th to 21st of September 2019. The titles of their contribution were "Understanding the Phase Behaviour of MoS2-Ti Compounds", "Thermodynamics of Nanoscale Friction" and "Frictional Anisotropy of MoS2 During Sliding: A Molecular Dynamics Study on the Atomistic Understanding of Frictional Mechanisms" respectively.