Prof. Antonio Papangelo partecipated in the 2026 Annual Meeting of the american Adhesion Society which was held February 8-11 at the Hyatt Regency Savannah (Georgia, USA). The event included a two-day short course, a poster session, exhibition, student award symposium, and concurrent technical sessions. The presentations covered all the areas of Adhesion Science and Technology…
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Happy to share that the research we do at the TriboDynamics Lab was disseminated to the large audience during the TV show “Mattino Norba” on Feb the 5th, 2026. Prof. Antonio Papangelo talked about how gecos and frogs inspire the design of new adhesive interfaces for dry and wet adhesion! Telenorba show: link Local video:…
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Today we have concluded the course “L’ingegneria delle superfici: dal geco ai touchscreen”, which was delivered to the high school students of the IISS G. Ferraris Molfetta!!A fantastic opportunity for them to visit a University Lab and discover the secrets of the surfaces that surround us.
Link to the interview for la Repubblica Bari. “Antonio Papangelo: Studio rane e gechi per creare materiali tech in grado anche di curare l’occhio”, di Nicola Lutrelli La Repubblica 26 Gennaio – text
Great to be part of the European Research Night with the TriboDynamics Group!!! It is very important to communicate to all the citizens how the European research funds are employed to improve everyday life! Many people stepped in our gazebo and it was exciting to explain them our research activities 🙂 Thank you to the…
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Back from AIAS 2025 (Wed 3 Sept 2025 – Sat 6 Sept 2025, Florence), the 54° Italian meeting on mechanical design, where Antonio Papangelo and Michele Tricarico presented our studies on “frictional resistance for a rolling cylinder” and on “Enhancing the adhesive strength of soft viscoelastic contacts” within our ERC research project SURFACE (ID: 101039198).
The European Solid Mechanics Conference is the major event for the solid mechanics community in Europe, and provides a unique forum for scientists and engineers from Europe and across the world to exchange ideas on the current state-of-the-art in the mechanics of solids, on new concepts and ideas and to identify new research directions. We…
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Ali Maghami, PhD student at the TriboDynamics Lab, partecipated in the 8th International Conference on Computational Contact Mechanics (ICCCM 2025), held in Munich on July 2-4 2025. He introduced to the audience coming from all over Europe our latest advances in modelling soft adhesive contacts using ML models. His presentation was entitled “Toward Real-Time…
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Michele is just back from a great week in the UK, splitting time between London and Oxford. In London, he took part in FTN2025 (https://www.non-linearity.com/home, June 19–20, 2025) at King’s College—catching up on the latest trends in nonlinear materials and structures and presenting a poster on the lab’s vibroadhesion research. After the conference, he made…
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We participated in The Fourth International Nonlinear Dynamics Conference (NODYCON 2025) hosted by the Stevens Institute of Technology from June 22 to 25, 2025. We have presented to the nonlinear dynamics community how system dynamics can strongly affect the adhesive properties of elastomeric surfaces. Thanks to @ERC_Research and @EU_Commission for funding our research on viscoelastic adhesion through the ERC…
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