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Symposium T: Nanoscale Tribology--Impact for Materials and Devices

The atomic-scale probing of friction, adhesion, lubrication, and wear has been recognized as a field of study for more than 20 years; but recently, nanotribology has begun having wide-ranging impact on real systems, devices, and materials design. An emerging opportunity to solve actual problems is being facilitated by the simultaneous development of:

- new intersections between cutting-edge experiment and theory/modeling/computation (especially in matching length scales)

- new achievements in developing, understanding, and applying materials with superlow friction and wear

- the emergence of meaningful approaches using nanotribology to explain phenomena at larger length scales, and elucidation of length scales where continuum mechanics breaks down

- breakthroughs in measuring contact, friction, and wear for atomistic events (friction between single molecules, creating and imaging individual dislocations, and single-atom contacts)

- novel applications and phenomena that demand nanotribological insights and new materials: nanomechanical data storage, micro/nanoelectromechanical systems, nanomanufacturing, green machining, earthquake physics, and more

The purpose of this symposium is to highlight and synthesize research that successfully explains underlying mechanisms of tribological interactions in technologically relevant systems, and not to just simply present nanoscale studies of tribology. The research presented here will distinguish approaches that are paying off from those that are not, and will emphasize what problems are being solved and why they are important.

Session topics include:

  • Application-specific nanotribology
  • Combined experiment and theory efforts: progress and results
  • Tribochemistry and wear processes
  • Superlow friction materials
  • New instrumentation to enable quantitative nanotribology, particularly in-situ techniques
  • Environmental effects in tribology across length scales

Invited speakers include: James Batteas (Texas A&M Univ.), Maarten de Boer (Sandia National Labs), Jay Fineberg (Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem, Israel), Joost Frenken (Leiden Univ., The Netherlands), Bernd Gotsmann (IBM Zürich, Switzerland), Suzi Jarvis (Univ. College-Dublin, Ireland), James Kiely (Seagate Technologies), Graham Leggett (Univ. of Sheffield, United Kingdom), Ernst Meyer (Univ. of Basel, Switzerland), Rene Overney (Univ. of Washington), Scott Perry (Univ. of Florida), Yue Qi (General Motors), Mark Robbins (Johns Hopkins Univ.), Miquel Salmeron (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab), Susan Sinnott (Univ. of Florida), Nic Spencer (ETH Zürich, Switzerland), Andrey Voevodin (Air Force Research Lab), Kathy Wahl (Naval Research Lab), and Hitoshi Washizu (Toyota Central R&D Labs, Inc., Japan).

Symposium Organizers

Yasuhisa Ando
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, 1-2 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8564, Japan
Tel 81-29-861-7143, Fax 81-29-861-7844, yas.ando@aist.go.jp

Robert W. Carpick
The University of Pennsylvania, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, 220 S. 33rd St., Philadelphia, PA 19104-6315
Tel 215-898-4608, Fax 215-573-6334, carpick@seas.upenn.edu

Roland Bennewitz
McGill University, Dept. of Physics, 3600 rue University, Montreal, Quebec H3A 2T8, Canada
Tel 514-398-3058, Fax 514-398-8434, roland.bennewitz@mcgill.ca

W. Greg Sawyer
University of Florida, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Gainesville, FL 32611
Tel 352-392-8488, Fax 352-392-1071, wgsawyer@ufl.edu



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