Month: September 2026

European Research Night

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!

Evento ERC in Italy “IL RUOLO STRATEGICO DELLA RICERCA DI FRONTIERA”

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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AIAS 2026 at Polytechnic University of Milan

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.

Dr. Michele Tricarico published a paper in Nature Materials

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