Surfaces can start slipping more easily when pressed harder - a surprising discovery by researchers at the University of Amsterdam and ARCNL. Their work reveals how microscopic contact points behave …
Zhouping Lyu, ‘High-resolution Imaging Through a Multimode Fiber: From Raster-scanning to Compressive Sensing’ On December 11th, Zhouping defended her thesis at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Zhouping did her doctoral research in …
In July 2024, the Contact Dynamics Group proudly represented the Advanced Research Center for Nanolithography (ARCNL) at the prestigious Gordon Research Conference (GRC) in Tribology. Recognized globally as one of …
One of the most critical challenges in high-end chip production is friction and wear. Two ARCNL research groups focus on understanding these processes: the Materials Theory and Modelling group and …
ARCNL group leaders Roland Bliem and Bart Weber each receive an ERC Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC). The projects granted are: - ‘SURPLAS: 'Resolving Surface Reactions in …
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.
