An upcoming international workshop focusing on “Superlubricity: Fundamental and applications” will be held on October 18-20 2015 in Beijing. The aim of the Workshop is to discuss recent scientific results on different aspects of superlubricity at nano- up to meso-scale, including dry and lubricated frictional contacts, and to formulate important unresolved problems. The topics to be covered include:
- Superlubricity in dry and lubricated contacts
- Superlubricity under ambient conditions
- Towards microscale superlubricty
- New materials exhibiting super-low friction
- Dynamical superlubricity
Confirmed invited speakers:
• Robert Carpick, University of Pennsylvania, USA
• Astrid S. de Wijn, Stockholm University, Sweden
• Annalisa Fasolino, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherland
• Joost Frenken, Leiden University, Netherlands
• Motohisa Hirano, Hosei University, Japan
• Oded Hod, Tel Aviv University, Israel
• Jacob Klein, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
• Elad Koren, IBM Zurich, Zurich
• Adachi Koshi, Tohoku University, Japan
• Jianbin Luo, Tsinghua University, China
• Ernst Meyer, University of Basel, Switzerland
• Andre Schirmeisen, Justus-Liebig University Giessen, Germany
• Anirudha V. Sumant, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
• Norio Tagawa, Kansai University, Japan
• Erio Tosatti, SISSA/ICTP, Italy
• Michael Urbakh, Tel Aviv University, Israel
• Nai-chang Yeh, Caltech, USA
• Junyan Zhang, Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
• Quanshui Zheng, Tsinghua, China
