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Friction and Adhesion in Nanomechanical Systems (FANAS)

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Researchers in the field of nanotribology examine micro- and nano-contacts in well-controlled geometries. Often these contacts have mobile adsorbates on the surfaces. Knowledge of physical behaviours at this scale is thought to be key to understanding how friction works on all length scales.

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Friction in everyday life          ...at different scales         ...at the nanoscale

 

 

 

Controlling microscopic friction through mechanical oscillations (20 November 2008)

Researchers from ACOF Collaborative Research Project investigate the effects of external mechanical solicitations to the tribological properties of sliding interfaces. The results have been published in Physical Review E 78, 036110 (2008). Read more...

 

 

 

 Tribology of Polymeric Nanocomposites (10 October 2008)

A new book on "Tribology of Polymeric Nanocomposites" by K. Friedrich and A.K. Schlarb has been published. Professor Alois Schlarb is the Project Leader of the FUNDTRIBO Collaborative Research Project.

To order this title and for further information click here

 

 

Frictional Duality Observed during Nanoparticle Sliding (22 September 2008)

The groups of Prof. Schirmeisen and Prof. U. Schwarz  from NANOPARMA CRPs have discovered a dual behaviour when trying to push antimony islands on graphite. They observed a 'superlubricity' behaviour  next to ordinary friction.

The research has been published in Phys. Rev. Lett., 101, 125505 (2008) and has been highlighted by Physical Review Focus.

 

What's New!

  • The FANAS Programme will be present at the NanoSikkim III meeting in Pelling, Sikkim India, from the 10th to 14th November 2008.

The FANAS dissemination session is scheduled on Thursday 13th November between 10:45 and 13:15.

The Programme is as follows:

10:45 Opening remarks/introduction:  Antonella Di Trapani  (European Science Foundation)  - Promoting collaborative research in Europe and Beyond: The ESF and EUROCORES Programmes
11:05 Paolo Decuzzi   (University of Magna Graecia) - Multiscale Adhesion of Bioinspired Particulate Systems (EBioAdl)   
11:25 Ernst Meyer     (University of Basel, Switzerland) - Atomic Friction (AFRI)
11:45 Michael Urbakh  (Tel Aviv University, Israel) - Minimalistic Models of Atomic Scale Friction (ACOF) 
12:05 Nic Spencer     (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) - Water-based lubricants: theory and experiment (AQUALUBE)
12:25 Andre Schirmeisen       (University of Munster) -  Nanoparticle manipulation with atomic force microscopy techniques (NANOPARMA)
12:45 Alois Schlarb  (Institut fuer Verbundwerkstoffe GmbH, Germany) - Fundamentals of Tribology – Correlation between Wear Characteristics and Material Properties of Polymers Ranged from Sub-Micro to Macro Scale (FUNDTRIBO)
13:05 Closing remarks Antonella Di Trapani  (European Science Foundation) 

 

 

 

  • The 1st Scientific Committee meeting took place in Strasbourg on the 28 July 2008

 

 

The FANAS leaflet is now out. (26 June 2008) 

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  •    The FANAS Programme was finally launched on the 17 June 2008.

The 7 CRPs which will form the FANAS Programme are (in brackets are the Funding Agencies which will support the Project):

EBioAdI- An Integrated Framework for Engineering Bio-Mimetic Adhesive Interfaces - Read more here (2 September 2008)

(CNR, DFG, CNRS, FNRS, TUBITAK, SNSF)

NOMCIS- Nanomanipulation of Metallic Clusters on Insulating Substrates - Read more here (2 September 2008)

(AKA, CNR, DFG)

AFRI-Atomic Friction - Read more here (2 September 2008)

(SNSF, DFG, TUBITAK, AKA, MCI, IRCSET, CNR)

ACOF-Active Control of Friction - Read more here (2 September 2008)

(ISF, CNRS, SNSF, DFG, MNISW)

AQUALUBE-Water-based lubricants: theory and experiment - Read more here (2 September 2008)

(SNSF, IRCSET, ISF)

NANOPARMA-Nanoparticle manipulation with atomic force microscopy techniques - Read more here (2 September 2008)

(DFG, FCT, SNSF, ETF, CNRS, SAV)

FUNDTRIBO-Fundamentals of Tribology – Correlation between Wear Characteristics and Material Properties of Polymers Ranged from Sub-Micro to Macro Scale - Read more here (2 September 2008)

(DFG, FWO, MCI)

 

 

 

 

  • Biotribology Review is out! Click here to download it.
  • A joint event between COST Action 533 'Biotribology', ENIWEP and VTI took place in Fundacion TEKNIKER on the 29-31 October 2007.

 

 

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