It was a great experience to attend the 8th World Tribology Congress (WTC 2026) (20-25 September, 2026) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil! 🌍 🇧🇷 Michele Tricarico had the pleasure of presenting our work “Unraveling Vibroadhesion: How Test Parameters Influence Vibration-Modulated Adhesion”, carried out at the Tribodynamics Lab of Politecnico di Bari. Our study explores how…
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Happy to have joined the European Research Night in Piazza Aldo Moro (Bari) on Friday the 25/09/2026 with a gazebo showing our research activities on microfabrication, adhesion and viscoelasticity applied to real world surfaces!
An excellent meeting at the Italian Chamber of Deputies on September 15th, focusing on cutting-edge research and the role ERC researchers can play in making the expertise they’ve developed over years of research and scientific activity available to the country! The speeches by distinguished colleagues from all over Italy and by several parliamentarians who attended…
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Prof. Antonio Papangelo partecipated in the AIAS conference 2026 held in Milan (Campus Bovisa) from the 2nd to the 4th of September 2026. Prof. Papangelo presented the work “Rate-dependent spherical and conical indentation of soft materials with application to biomechanics” by A. Shiferaw, M. Tricarico, L. Afferrante and A. Papangelo.
Congratulations to Michele Tricarico, junior researcher in the TriboDynamics Lab for being author of the paper entitled “Flux-mediated ligand exchange restructures metal–organic framework glasses” published in one of the most prestigious venue for material science Nature Materials (IF=38). Find the link here: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-026-02712-5
This year, our former member, Dr. Ali Maghami, was awarded the prestigious Marie SkĹ‚odowska-Curie Fellowship for the project “Real-Time Adhesion Trajectories and Inverse Design via Physics-Enhanced Machine Learning.” We thank Ali for his collaboration with us and wish him all the best for his future career and research project at TU Berlin, Germany. The TriboDynamics…
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Prof. Antonio Papangelo was recently invited to take part in the 12th International Forum on the Fundamentals of Sliding Friction and Vibration, 23-24 June, held at TU Berlin. It was a truly immersive experience, full of inspiring discussions and interactions with all the participants. This was exactly the kind of “small” workshop where you can…
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Excited to share that Riccardo recently had the opportunity to attend the Nanoscribe User Meeting 2026 in Karlsruhe, Germany (11-12 June, 2026) — and what an experience it was! Being at the ZEISS Innovation Hub @KIT, surrounded by researchers and engineers pushing the boundaries of 3D microfabrication, was truly inspiring. But this time it felt…
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Michele Tricarico attended the 10th AIT Workshop: “Tribology and Industry” on June 4th and 5th, 2026 in the beautiful setting of Sapienza UniversitĂ di Roma in the heart of Rome. This long-standing initiative by the Italian Tribology Association serves as a fantastic forum for bridging fundamental research with practical industrial applications. It was a wonderful…
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Nafiseh Forghani had the opportunity to present our work at #EMMC20 – 20th European Mechanics of Materials Conference, 27-29 May 2026, in Florence, as part of the Mechanics of Biological Materials and Biomechanics Symposium. The presentation focused on “Optimizing Two-Photon Polymerization for Biomimetic Retinal Cell Culture Scaffolds”. The work was supported by the European Union…
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