Program of the Conference in Portovenere

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Saturday, October 19

Arrival in Portovenere
 
     

Sunday, October 20
9.00-9.15 E. Meyer Introduction to ESF-Nanotribo
     

Adhesion, Contact mechanics, Tribocharging
 
9.15-10.00 B. Persson Contact Mechanics and Adhesion
10.00-10.30 S. Zilberman Adhesion between elastic bodies with rough surfaces
10.30-11.00 Coffee Break
11.00-11.30 R. Buzio Contact mechanics and friction of fractal surfaces probed by AFM
11.30-12.00 S. Bistac Adhesion and friction of polymer networks: molecular mechanisms
12.00-12.30 A. Shluger Atomistic Modelling of the Mechanism of Tribocharging
     
Lunch and Afternoon-Excursion
     
     

Monday, October 21

Friction, Nanomechanics
9.15-10.00 M. Salmeron Viscous and wetting properties of perfluoropolyethers
10.00-10.30 Th. Becker Two-Dimensional Dynamics of Layering Transitions
10.30-11.00 Coffee Break
11.00-11.30 U. Schwarz The Frictional Behavior of Hertzian Contact Analyzed Using a new Contact Mechanical Model
11.30-12.00 J. Klafter From a microscopic description of friction to phenomenology: new regimes of motion
12.00-12.30 G. Rubio-Bollinger Mechanical properties and formation mechanisms of a wire of single gold atoms
12.30-14.00 Lunch
     

Simulations
14.00-14.45 U. Landman Atomic roughness effects and molecular control in lubricated nano-junctions
14.45-15.15 A. Foster Electronic and Ionic Processes at Contact
15.15-15.45 Coffee Break
     

Wear
15.45-16.15 M .Scherge Dissipation in nanoscale wear
16.15-16.45 J-P. Celis The concept of wear rate per unit of dissipated energy in macro- and microsliding
16.45-17.15 E. Gnecco Atomic scale friction and wear on ionic crystals
     

Tribochemistry
17.15-17.45 C. Kajdas An attempt to model the initiation process of tribochemical reactions by the flash temperature
17.45-18.15 M. Bielman Interfacial friction of micrometer sized chip bond contact: Impact of plasma treatment on Ag bond pads
20.00 Dinner
21.00 Steering committee meeting
     
     

Tuesday, October 22

Friction, stick-slip, QCM
9.15-10.00 J. Krim QCM-STM Studies of the Nanoscale Dynamics of "Model System" and "Real-World'' Lubricants.
10.00-10.30 J. Luebbben Contact Mechanics at MHz Frequencies with a combined QCM/AFM
10.30-11.00 Coffee Break
11.00-11.30 G. Mistura Depinning of atomically thin Kr films on Gold
11.30-12.00 O. Ronsin Self Healing Slip Pulses along a Gel/Glass Interfaces
11.30-12.00 E. Brener Frictional shear cracks
12.00-14.00 Lunch
     

Friction, non-contact friction, dissipation in tapping mode
14.00-14.30 S. Ciraci A microscopic theory of energy dissipation in friction
14.30-15.00 S. Dag Atomic scale study of friction between hydrogenated carbon surfaces
15.00-15.30 F. Mugele Dissipation in Tapping Mode AFM at High Humidity
15.30-16.00 R. Garcia Energy dissipation and compositional mapping in amplitude modulation AFM
16.00-16.30 Coffee Break
16.30-17.00 A. Volokitin Noncontact friction between nanostructures
17.00-17.30 A .Baratoff Dissipation in nc-AFM
17.30-18.00 R. Perez Interplay between Nonlinearity, Scan Speed, Damping, and Electronics in Frequency Modulation Atomic Force Microscopy
18.00-18.30 L. Kantorovich Dissipation mechanisms in AFM: approach based on nonequilibrium statistical mechanics
19.30 Dinner
21.00 Short presentations of posters (10 minutes) and poster session
     
     

Wednesday, October 23

Lubrication, Wetting, Atomic Wires
9.00-9.30 M. Urbakh Chemical Control of Friction: Mixed Lubricant Monolayers
9.30-10.00 U. Tartaglino Boundary Lubrication: Squeeze-out Dynamics of a Compressible 2D Liquid
10.00-10.30 S. Agrait Energy dissipation in atomic wires
10.30-11.00 E. Riedo Nanoscale wetting dynamics in sliding friction
11.00-11.30 A. Kulik Tribolgy and Ultrasonic Hysteresis at Local Scales
11.30-12.00 Concluding Remarks
 

Poster Session

P1 - P. Fornaro, Real-Time Simulations on Atomic Friction for Science and Education P2 - A. Lohmus, Possibilities of 3D Nanoscale subsurface study
P3 - D. Erts, Force interaactions and adhesion of Au nanocontacts and Si nanowires using a combined SPM/TEM
P4 - I. Hussainova, Microstructural aspects on wear on nonhomogeneous materials
P5 - A. Socoliuc, Ripple formation induced by localized abrasion
P6 - F. Buatier de Mongeot, NanoRub: an experimental collaboration to study atomic friction
P7 - A.Foster, Simulating Nanoparticle-Surface Forces
P8 - C. Boragno, A novel approach for the investigation of mesoscopic contact mechanics
P9 - K. Saal, Preparation of reproducibly smooth siloxane surfaces
P10 M. Dias, Wear testing
P11 R. Perez, Ab-initio calculation of conductance and forces in Al nanowires
P12 G. Kulik , Friction measured on hydrophobic perfluorosilane layers of different density
 

Organizer

U. Valbusa, E. Meyer, A. Martinoli

Invited Speaker

M. Salmeron, J. Krim, U. Landman
 

Participants

Nicolas Agrait, Madrid, Spain
A. Baratoff, Basel, Switzerland
Michael Bielmann, Fribourg, Switzerland
Sophie Bistac, Mulhouse, France
Corrado Boragno, Genova, Italy
Efim Brener, Jülich, Germany
Francesco Buatier de Mongeot, Genova, Italy
Renato Buzio, Genova, Italy
Alessandro Carlin, Padova, Italy
Salim Ciraci, Ankara, Turkey
Teresa Cuberes, Almaden, Spain
Sefa Dag, Ankara, Turkey
Mouta Dias, Portugal
Engin Durgun, Ankara, Turkey
Donats Erts, Riga, Litovie
Peter Fornaro, Basel, Switzerland
Adam Foster, Helsinki, Finland
Ricardo Garcia, Madrid, Spain
Enrico Gnecco, Basel, Switzerland
Irina Hussainova, Tallinn, Estland
Celis Jean-Pierre, Leuven, Belgium
Czeslaw Kajdas, Plock/Warschau, Poland
Lev Kantorovich, London, GB
Joseph Klafter, Tel Aviv, Israel
Jacqueline Krim, USA
Uzi Landman, USA

Ants Lohmus, Tartu, Estland
Joern Felix Luebben, Mainz, Germany
Ilja Makkonen, Espoo/Helsinki, Finland
Ernst Meyer, Basel, Switzerland
Giampaolo Mistura, Padova, Italy
Frieder Mugele, Ulm, Germany
Olli Pakarinen, Helsinki, Finland
Emanuele Paniz, Padova, Italy
Ruben Perez, Madrid, Spain
Bo Persson, Jülich, Germany
Elisa Riedo, Lausanne, Switzerland
Olivier Ronsin, Paris, France
Gabino Rubio-Bollinger, Madrid, Spain
Kristjan Saal, Tartu, Estland
Miquel Salmeron, USA
Matthias Scherge, Karlsruhe, Germany
Udo Schwarz, New Haven/Yale Univ., USA
Alexander Shluger, London, GB
Anisoara Socoliuc, Basel, Switzerland
Ugo Tartaglino, Trieste, Italy
Michael Urbakh, Tel Aviv, Israel
Ugo Valbusa, Genova, Italy
Alexander Volokitin, Samara, Russia
Silviu Zilberman, Tel Aviv, Israel