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• Harnessing water’s stickiness for adhesion control 

  January 13, 2026

  Printing computer chips with nanoscale features requires extremely precise positioning. Electric charges and water on surfaces can impact this precision, but these effects have not been fully understood. Now, ARCNL postdoctoral researcher Tunç Çiftçi and his …

• Diamond shown to wear down atom by atom

  October 1, 2025

  Despite being the hardest material on Earth, even diamond wears down eventually. Together with scientists from University of Bologna, Cyrian Leriche and colleagues at ARCNL have characterized this wear at …

• ARCNL researchers share results and ideas at ECOTRIB 2025

  August 2, 2025

  The Contact Dynamics group at ARCNL was featured at the 9th European Conference on Tribology (ECOTRIB 2025), held in the iconic main building at ETH Zürich. ARCNL postdoctoral researcher Dr.

• ARCNL helps redefine how we measure roughness in worldwide Surface-Topography Challenge

  July 30, 2025

  In the world of surface topography, the roughness of a surface has long been characterized by a single number. But scientists around the world, including Bart Weber and Cyrian Leriche …

• First-year bachelor students complete research project at ARCNL

  July 15, 2025

  A group of physics bachelor students spent two weeks in group leader Bart Weber’s lab at ARCNL, to do a research project as part of their studies at the University …

• Contact Dynamics at the world’s largest physics conference

  May 25, 2025

  ARCNL postdoctoral researcher Dr. Tunç Çiftçi gave an oral presentation at the American Physical Society (APS) March Meeting, held this year in Anaheim, California. His talk on how electric fields …

• Why silicon surfaces slip more easily under pressure

  May 1, 2025

  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 …

• Successful PhD defenses: three Researchers earn their doctorate

  March 20, 2025

  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 …

• Contact Dynamics at Gordon Research Conference – Tribology 2024

  July 1, 2024

  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 …

• Tevis Jacobs Lab visiting Contact Dynamics at ARCNL

  February 9, 2024

  Prof. Tevis Jacobs and two researchers from his group, Felix Cassin and Arushi Pradhan, visited the Contact Dynamics group at ARCNL at the Amsterdam Science Park. The lab of Tevis …

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