Joint ICTP-FANAS Conference on Trends in Nanotribology

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Monday, 12 September 2011

08:30 - 09:00 Registration
- 08:30 Registration 30'
09:00 - 09:20 Opening Ceremony
- 09:00 Opening Ceremony 20'

09:20 - 10:00 Exploring the atomic underpinnings of macroscopic friction

09:20 Exploring the atomic underpinnings of macroscopic friction 40'

Speaker:	Mark Robbins (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA)
Material:	slides

10:00 - 10:20 Quantum friction and graphene

10:00 Quantum friction and graphene 20'

Speaker:	Alexander I. Volokitin (Samara State Technical University, Russian Federation)
Material:	slides

10:20 - 10:50 Coffee Break
- 10:20 Coffee Break 30'
10:50 - 11:30 Lubrication flows of jammed materials
- 10:50 Lubrication flows of jammed materials 40'
  
  Speaker: Lyderic Bocquet (Universite Claude Bernard, Villeurbanne, France)

11:30 - 11:50 Atomic scale energy dissipation mechanisms in NC-AFM

11:30 Atomic scale energy dissipation mechanisms in NC-AFM 20'

Speaker:	Filippo Federici Canova (Dept. of Physics, Tampere University of Technology, Tampere)
Material:	slides

11:50 - 12:30 Tribology of PEEK-based composites
- 11:50 Tribology of PEEK-based composites 40'
  
  Speaker: Alois K. Schlarb (University of Kaiserslautern, Germany)
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
- 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30'

14:00 - 14:40 Dynamical behaviour of small organic molecules on metallic and graphitic substrates

14:00 Dynamical behaviour of small organic molecules on metallic and graphitic substrates 40'

Speaker:	William Allison (Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK)
Material:	slides

14:40 - 15:00 Influence of in-plane and out-of-plane ultrasonic oscillations on sliding friction

14:40 Influence of in-plane and out-of-plane ultrasonic oscillations on sliding friction 20'

Speaker:	Elena Teidelt (TU Berlin, Germany)
Material:	slides

15:00 - 15:20 Contact lubrication in human articular joints: the role of glycoproteins

15:00 Contact lubrication in human articular joints: the role of glycoproteins 20'

Speaker:	Bruno Zappone (CNR, Universita' della Calabria, Rende, Italy)
Material:	slides

15:20 - 15:40 Regelation and surface premelting of ice

15:20 Regelation and surface premelting of ice 20'

Speaker:	Nino Samadashvili (Tampere University of Technology, Finland)
Material:	slides

15:40 - 16:00 Sliding over a phase transition

15:40 Sliding over a phase transition 20'

Speaker:	Andrea Benassi (CNR-IENI, Milano, Italy)
Material:	slides

16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break
- 16:00 Coffee Break 30'
16:50 - 18:50 FANAS Scientific Committee Meeting
- 16:50 FANAS Scientific Committee Meeting 2h0'
19:00 - 21:00 Conference Buffet Dinner at Leonardo Building Cafeteria
- 19:00 Conference Buffet Dinner at Leonardo Building Cafeteria 2h0'

Tuesday, 13 September 2011

09:00 - 09:40 Fundamental aspects of friction and lubrication: a molecular level approach

09:00 Fundamental aspects of friction and lubrication: a molecular level approach 40'

Speaker:	Miquel Salmeron (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
Material:	slides

09:40 - 10:20 Generalised Langevin Equation for open classical and quantum systems
- 09:40 Generalised Langevin Equation for open classical and quantum systems 40'
  
  Speaker: Lev Kantorovich (Kings College London, UK)
10:20 - 10:50 Coffee Break
- 10:20 Coffee Break 30'
10:50 - 11:30 Nano- and meso-scale energy dissipation in contacts
- 10:50 Nano- and meso-scale energy dissipation in contacts 40'
  
  Speaker: John Pethica (University of Oxford, UK)

11:30 - 11:50 Effect of relative humidity when manipulating gold nanoparticles on flat substrates using dynamic atomic force microscopy

11:30 Effect of relative humidity when manipulating gold nanoparticles on flat substrates using dynamic atomic force microscopy 20'

Speaker:	Karine Mougin (Institut fuer Mikrostrukturtechnik, Universitaet Karlsruhe (TH), Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany)
Material:	slides

11:50 - 12:30 Interactions of contacting interfaces with atomic-scale roughness
- 11:50 Interactions of contacting interfaces with atomic-scale roughness 40'
  
  Speaker: Bernd Gotsmann (IBM Research GmbH, Zurich, Switzerland)
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
- 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30'
14:00 - 14:40 Cell adhesion and proliferation on nano-engineered substrates
- 14:00 Cell adhesion and proliferation on nano-engineered substrates 40'
  
  Speaker: Paolo Decuzzi (The Methodist Hospital Research Institute, Houston, USA)

14:40 - 15:00 Studies on micro and nanotribological behaviour of Ti alloys and the polymer (UHMWPE)

14:40 Studies on micro and nanotribological behaviour of Ti alloys and the polymer (UHMWPE) 20'

Speaker:	Geetha Manivasagam (Center for Nanocomposites and Center for Biomedical Implants, School of Mechanical and Building Scie)
Material:	slides

15:00 - 15:20 Friction of Xenon monolayers on Copper

15:00 Friction of Xenon monolayers on Copper 20'

Speaker:	Giampaolo Mistura (Dipartimento di Fisica G. Galilei, Universita di Padova, Italy)
Material:	slides

15:20 - 15:40 Coarsening of Pb islands and dynamics of Pb wetting layer on Si(111)

15:20 Coarsening of Pb islands and dynamics of Pb wetting layer on Si(111) 20'

Speaker:	Cai-Zhuang Wang (Ames Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy, Ames, Iowa, USA)
Material:	slides

15:40 - 16:20 Molecular friction dissipation and mode coupling in organic monolayers and polymer films

15:40 Molecular friction dissipation and mode coupling in organic monolayers and polymer films 40'

Speaker:	Rene Overney (University of Washington, Seattle, USA)
Material:	slides

16:20 - 18:20 Poster Session

During the poster session, wine and refreshments will be served

16:20 Poster Session 2h0'

Wednesday, 14 September 2011

09:00 - 09:40 Transient and steady-state features of anisotropic (off-axis) friction forces

09:00 Transient and steady-state features of anisotropic (off-axis) friction forces 40'

Speaker:	Jacob Israelachvili (Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
Material:	slides

09:40 - 10:20 Scaling laws of structural lubricity
- 09:40 Scaling laws of structural lubricity 40'
  
  Speaker: Andre Schirmeisen (University of Giessen, Germany)
10:20 - 10:50 Coffee Break
- 10:20 Coffee Break 30'

10:50 - 11:10 Stabilizing stick-flip friction

10:50 Stabilizing stick-flip friction 20'

Speaker:	Rosario Capozza (School of Chemistry, Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Material:	slides

11:10 - 11:30 Diamonds are not forever: An atomistic view on wear of diamond
- 11:10 Diamonds are not forever: An atomistic view on wear of diamond 20'
  
  Speaker: Lars Pastewka (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA)

11:30 - 11:50 Relation between the adhesion and elastic forces for fractal contact surfaces with different Hurst exponent

11:30 Relation between the adhesion and elastic forces for fractal contact surfaces with different Hurst exponent 20'

Speaker:	Alexander Filippov (Donetsk Institute for Physics and Engineering, Donetsk, Ukraine)
Material:	slides

11:50 - 12:30 Atomic friction experiments on molecularly thin films
- 11:50 Atomic friction experiments on molecularly thin films 40'
  
  Speaker: Roland Bennewitz (INM – Leibniz Institut fuer Neue Materialien, Saarbruecken, Germany)
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
- 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30'
14:00 - 14:40 Lubricated sliding dynamics: flow factors and Stribeck curve
- 14:00 Lubricated sliding dynamics: flow factors and Stribeck curve 40'
  
  Speaker: Bo Persson (IFF, FZ Juelich, Juelich, Germany)

14:40 - 15:00 Low friction and rotational dynamics of crystalline flakes in solid lubrication

14:40 Low friction and rotational dynamics of crystalline flakes in solid lubrication 20'

Speaker:	Annalisa Fasolino (Radboud University Nijmegen, Institute for Molecules and Materials, Nijmegen, the Netherlands)
Material:	slides

15:00 - 15:20 Dynamical imaging of nanotribology using a triboprobe inside a transmission electron microscope
- 15:00 Dynamical imaging of nanotribology using a triboprobe inside a transmission electron microscope 20'
  
  Speaker: Beverley Inkson (The University of Sheffield, UK)

15:20 - 15:40 Unjamming dynamics of a granular seismic model

15:20 Unjamming dynamics of a granular seismic model 20'

Speaker:	Massimo Pica Ciamarra (Universita' di Napoli Federico II, Italy)
Material:	slides

15:40 - 16:20 Viscous dissipation in confined liquid films

15:40 Viscous dissipation in confined liquid films 40'

Speaker:	Frieder Mugele (University of Twente, the Netherlands)
Material:	slides

16:20 - 16:50 Coffee Break
- 16:20 Coffee Break 30'
16:50 - 17:30 Tribological properties of nanocrystalline metallic contacts
- 16:50 Tribological properties of nanocrystalline metallic contacts 40'
  
  Speaker: Michael Chandross (Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, USA)
17:30 - 17:50 The effective viscosity of confined hydrocarbons determined by Molecular Dynamics
- 17:30 The effective viscosity of confined hydrocarbons determined by Molecular Dynamics 20'
  
  Speaker: Ion M. Sivebaek (IFF, FZ-Juelich, Germany)

17:50 - 18:30 Dissipation from contact to non-contact

17:50 Dissipation from contact to non-contact 40'

Speaker:	Ernst Meyer (University of Basel, Switzerland)
Material:	slides

19:00 - 21:00 Conference Dinner
- 19:00 Conference Dinner 2h0'

Thursday, 15 September 2011

09:00 - 09:40 Atomic-scale friction and wear of single asperities
- 09:00 Atomic-scale friction and wear of single asperities 40'
  
  Speaker: Robert Carpick (University of Pennsylvania, USA)

09:40 - 10:20 Tribological applications of cold trapped ions

09:40 Tribological applications of cold trapped ions 40'

Speaker:	Hartmut Haeffner (Department of Physics, UC Berkeley, USA)
Material:	slides

10:20 - 10:50 Coffee Break
- 10:20 Coffee Break 30'
10:50 - 11:30 Sliding on a nanotube: interplay of friction, deformations and defects
- 10:50 Sliding on a nanotube: interplay of friction, deformations and defects 40'
  
  Speaker: Elisa Riedo (Georgia Tech, Atlanta, USA)

11:30 - 11:50 Bridging atomistic and continuum scales with a view to solving tribological problems

11:30 Bridging atomistic and continuum scales with a view to solving tribological problems 20'

Speaker:	Antonio DiCarlo (LaMS, Universita Roma Tre, Italy)
Material:	slides

11:50 - 12:30 Physisorbed molecules: How their friction and spreading properties impact lubricity

11:50 Physisorbed molecules: How their friction and spreading properties impact lubricity 40'

Speaker:	Jacqueline Krim (Department of Physics, North Carolina State University, USA)
Material:	slides

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
- 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30'

14:00 - 14:40 A multiscale approach for frictional contact

14:00 A multiscale approach for frictional contact 40'

Speaker:	Jean-Francois Molinari (Ecole Polytechnique Federale of Lausanne, Switzerland)
Material:	slides

14:40 - 15:00 Microtribology of ultra-thin film systems
- 14:40 Microtribology of ultra-thin film systems 20'
  
  Speaker: Martin Dienwiebel (Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials, Freiburg, Germany)

15:00 - 15:20 Rubber friction: Experimental investigations and comparison to theory

15:00 Rubber friction: Experimental investigations and comparison to theory 20'

Speaker:	Boris Lorenz (Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany)
Material:	slides

15:20 - 15:40 Fast movements of kicked nanoclusters
- 15:20 Fast movements of kicked nanoclusters 20'
  
  Speaker: Guido Paolicelli (Istituto Nanoscienze-CNR, Modena, Italy)

15:40 - 16:20 Transport of biopolymers through nanopores and nanochannels

15:40 Transport of biopolymers through nanopores and nanochannels 40'

Speaker:	S.C. Ying (Brown University, USA)
Material:	slides

16:20 - 16:50 Coffee Break
- 16:20 Coffee Break 30'
16:50 - 18:50 FANAS Review Panel Meeting
- 16:50 FANAS Review Panel Meeting 2h0'

Friday, 16 September 2011

09:00 - 09:40 Exploring tribological phenomena with surface gradients

09:00 Exploring tribological phenomena with surface gradients 40'

Speaker:	Nicholas E. Spencer (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Material:	slides

09:40 - 10:00 Anisotropy effects in atomic-scale friction

09:40 Anisotropy effects in atomic-scale friction 20'

Speaker:	Enrico Gnecco (IMDEA Nanociencia, Madrid, Spain)
Material:	slides

10:00 - 10:20 Slow cracklike dynamics at the onset of frictional sliding
- 10:00 Slow cracklike dynamics at the onset of frictional sliding 20'
  
  Speaker: Efim Brener (Institut fur Festkorperforschung, Juelich, Germany)
10:20 - 10:50 Coffee Break
- 10:20 Coffee Break 30'

10:50 - 11:30 Shake, rattle and slip: thermal excitations in atomic-scale friction

10:50 Shake, rattle and slip: thermal excitations in atomic-scale friction 40'

Speaker:	Joost Frenken (Leiden University, The Netherlands)
Material:	slides

11:30 - 11:50 Tuning the superhydrorepellence of fractal surfaces

11:30 Tuning the superhydrorepellence of fractal surfaces 20'

Speaker:	Giuseppe Carbone (TriboLAB, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Meccanica e Gestionale, Politecnico di Bari, Italy)
Material:	slides

11:50 - 12:10 Friction at the nanoscale on clean and hydrogen passivated surfaces of single crystal germanium
- 11:50 Friction at the nanoscale on clean and hydrogen passivated surfaces of single crystal germanium 20'
  
  Speaker: Marek Szymonski (Astronomy and Applied Computer Science, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland)
12:10 - 12:30 Prize Ceremony
- 12:10 Prize Ceremony 20'
12:30 - 13:45 Lunch Break
- 12:30 Lunch Break 1h15'
13:45 - 14:00 Group Photograph (The photo will be taken outdoors on the staircase of the terrace near the cafeteria exit)
- 13:45 Group Photograph (The photo will be taken outdoors on the staircase of the terrace near the cafeteria exit) 15'
14:00 - 14:40 Adhesion hysteresis in molecular systems
- 14:00 Adhesion hysteresis in molecular systems 40'
  
  Speaker: Ruben Perez (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain)
14:40 - 15:00 Dynamics of friction for confined nonwetting polymer droplets
- 14:40 Dynamics of friction for confined nonwetting polymer droplets 20'
  
  Speaker: Vladimir N. Samoylov (IFF, FZ-Juelich, Juelich, Germany)

15:00 - 15:20 Sliding velocity dependence of adhesion in a nanometer-sized contact

15:00 Sliding velocity dependence of adhesion in a nanometer-sized contact 20'

Speaker:	Olivier Noel (Université du Maine, Le Mans, Franc)
Material:	slides

15:20 - 15:40 Sliding prevention in super-strong self-collapsed nanotube cables

15:20 Sliding prevention in super-strong self-collapsed nanotube cables 20'

Speaker:	Nicola Pugno (Laboratory of Bio-inspired Nanomechanics, Torino, Italy)
Material:	slides

15:40 - 16:20 Collective effects in the frictional interface

15:40 Collective effects in the frictional interface 40'

Speaker:	Oleg Braun (Institute of Physics NASU, Kiev, Ukraine)
Material:	slides

16:20 - 16:50 Coffee Break
- 16:20 Coffee Break 30'
16:50 - 17:30 Multicontact dynamics of friction
- 16:50 Multicontact dynamics of friction 40'
  
  Speaker: Michael Urbakh (School of Chemistry, Tel Aviv University, Israel)
17:30 - 17:50 Closing
- 17:30 Closing 20'