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 …
Contact Dynamics said goodbye to Chen for finishing his postdoc project and welcomed Dennis Kang for his Ph.D. study in the group outing at Levant Restaurant with Turkish cuisine.
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.
A general summary on tribonet.org of a recent published paper in Tribology International where Feng-Chun Hsia and coworkers systematically compare the friction and wear behavior of reciprocated and non-reciprocated contacts …
