Feng-Chun Hsia and Bart Weber (ARCNL Contact Dynamics group) contributed to a recently published paper in Physical Review Letters. The paper about the role of water in friction processes was …
A collaboration of chemists and physicists have shed light on a crucial aspect of friction: how things begin to slide. Using fluorescence microscopy and dedicated fluorescent molecules, they were able …
The amount of friction between surfaces generally depends on their roughness, but at the nanoscale ‘rough’ surfaces experience less friction than smoother surfaces. With a unique experimental setup, researchers at …
The Contact Dynamics group has installed a new commercial Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) system for the characterization of surface topography and material properties at the nanoscale. The purchased Bruker Innova …
In a recent paper in Sciences Advances, researchers from the University of Amsterdam, with a contribution of ARCNL group leader Bart Weber, present new experimental insight into how lubrication works.
As of September 1st, Bart Weber has been appointed as tenure-track group leader of the Contact Dynamics group at ARCNL, through an appointment as assistant professor at the Institute of …
Last week two ARCNL students won prizes for their contribution to international conferences. At the ELENA conference in Leuven (Belgium) Neha Thakur got the prize for Best Student Talk. Thakur …
ARCNL and UvA postdoc Bart Weber (Contact Dynamics group) has been awarded a Veni grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) for his proposal ‘Friction on demand: To slide or …
The concept of friction was already investigated five hundred years ago by Leonardo da Vinci. His most important result, the proportionality of friction to the normal force, is still used …
