News
May 2024 - Many announcements!!!!
- Welcome Krisa, Diana, Albert, Yasmin, and Aditya to the group! We are very happy to have you join and contribute to the research activities in our group.
- Dr. Egberts travels to Curtin University in Perth, Australia to support research exchanges between the two institutions!
- Dr. Egberts travels to Minneapolis to speak about environmental contamination of graphene at the STLE 2024 Annual Meeting.
- Kasi presents his work on mechanics of nanocrystalline HEAs at the Canadian Materials Science Conference.
April 2024: Jackson Uhryn defends his MSc thesis. Congratulations Jackson!!!!!
January 2024 - Dr. Egberts was interviewed by Trends in Lubrication Technology [link].
December 2023 - Dr. Egberts appointed Associate Dean of Engineering Physics.
December 2023 - Chaochen's paper on friction properties of germanium thin films and their application to triboelectric nanogenerators is published in the journal Small. Congrats Chaochen!!!! [link]
September 2023 - Welcome Zuhaa Khan and Hunter Marcelo to the group! We are so happy to have you join us and cannot wait to see what contributions you make!!!!!
August 2023 - Welcome Kasi Subramanian to the group! Looking forward to all the new ideas you bring to our group!
August 2023 - Tom Mathias successfully defends his MSc Thesis!!! Congratulations Tom and best of luck in Toronto at Hatch!
July 2023 - Mac Love successfully defends his MSc Thesis!!!!! Congrats Mac and looking forward to continuing working together in your PhD studies!
June 2023 - Dr. Egberts completes his term as Acting Head of the Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering.
May 2023 - The group goes to the STLE Annual Meeting. Congrats Tom, Jackson, and Chaochen on your talks!!!!
May 2023 - Welcome to all the summer students joining the Egberts Lab!!!! Vicky Nguyen, Atticus Nolan, Chirag Bhardwaj, Farhaan Alam, and Hardik Tiwari.
April 2023 - Congrats to Chaochen for winning the Peter J. Blau Best Poster Award at the Wear of Materials Conference in Banff!!!!
April 2023 - Congratulations to Dr. Chaochen Xu whose paper was accepted and available online examining the impact of water intercalation on the friction performance of 2D materials [link]. Also, congratulations to Drs. Leo Alarcan and Babak Soltannia and Jackson Uhryn for getting their paper on greases made with sustainable thickeners published. [link]
January 2023 - Happy New Year! Congratulations to Dr. Chaochen Xu whose paper finally was released to the public! This work was a great example of listening and collaborating together, as it comes from opposing views on how to prepare graphene between Drs. Xu and Egberts! Thank you for the hard work everyone and to Justin Ye for providing the simulation support! [link to paper].
December 2022 - Dr. Egberts gave an invited talk at IndiaTrib! Was a wonderful opportunity to catch up with past colleagues, especially Dr. Nitya Nand Gosvami, and meet all the tribologists in India. Thank you very much for the opportunity to come!
June 2022 - Dr. Egberts gives an invited talk at the CMSE 2022 annual meeting. And Malcolm Macdonald and Babak Soltannia attend the GRS/GRC Tribology conference!
May 2022 - After some return to normalcy during the winter term of 2022 and lots of training and lab work, we are welcoming many newcomers to the Nanotribology Lab this spring! We welcome:
- Vinay Saini - A new postdoc joining us from the group of Dr. Bijwe at IIT Delhi.
- Aleks Berezowski - a NSERC USRA second year software engineer from the UofC.
- Rosivaldo Oliveira - a Mitacs Globalink undergraduate student from the Federal University of Paraná in Brazil.
- Sahil Masoom - a Mitacs Globalink undergraduate student from IIT Patna in India.
- Sebastian Sudak - a third undergraduate summer student of Dr. Qiao Sun's collaborating with us from University of Alberta in Mechanical Engineering.
October 2021 - We welcome Chaochen Xu to the group from Tsinghua University and the group of Qunyang Li.
September 2021 - We are returning to in person lectures and learning! Good luck everyone and stay safe. Some other news:
- Tom Mathias joins us from Western University to work on the UHV AFM. Welcome Tom.
- Mac Love joins us from the Mechanical Engineering department at UCalgary to work on a project to develop improved Active Learning in Materials Science Labs. Welcome Mac
August 2021 - Congrats Penny on the publication of your paper looking at the impact of heating on the friction measured on graphene!!!! [link]
July 2021 - Welcome to Babak Soltannia! He is joining our group (and Dr. Milana Trifkovic's) from the University of Alberta where he recently completed his PhD in Mechanical Engineering. He is joining the group as a postdoctoral fellow to help us link rheology of greases with their friction reducing properties. Welcome Babak!
June 2021 - Congratulations to Zahra on getting her second paper published on her measurements of the out-of-plane elastic modulus of graphene. The link to her paper can be found here [link].
May 2021 - May is an exciting month. So many announcements to make!
- We have two new undergraduate students joining the lab. Raksha Achar and David Sovboda, both second year engineering students. Welcome to the lab and I hope you have a great time even with the COVID restrictions in place.
- We also have two new MSc students joining the group! Welcome Malcolm MacDonald from Western Engineering and Jackson Uhryn from UCalgary Mechanical Engineering! It is great to have you two join the group.
- Jitendra, Edwin and Arun's paper on understand wear-corrosion mechanisms of carbon steel used to transport hydraulic fracturing fluids is accepted into Tribology International [link]. Congrats to the three of you for all of your hard work.
- Jitendra Panda has decided to leave us to join CTK Bio Canada in Port Coquitlam, British Colombia to help them with their R&D projects. Congrats to Jitendra, and we will miss you in the lab!
April 29th 2021 - Zahra Abooalizadeh successfully defended her PhD thesis! Congrats Zahra!!!!
April 2021 - Jitendra and Edwin's paper on statistical analysis of formulated hydraulic fracturing fluid is accepted for publication in Tribology Letters [link]. Congrats!
January 2021 - Preet Patel, a second year student at the Indian Institute of Technology - Kanpur, was selected for a Mitacs Globalink fellowship to join our group this summer. Congratulations Preet and welcome to the group!
September 2020 - Arun Mohanty joins the group to complete an MEng project on protecting steel pipes used in hydraulic fracturing. Welcome Arun!
September 2020 - Nic Chan has decided to leave the group and chase some other goals. Best of luck to you Nic! We will miss you!
September 2020 - Jitendra, Brandon, and Edwin's paper examining the effectiveness of boronizing steels to reduce corrosion and erosion has been published in Tribology International! Congrats you three! [link]
August 2020 - Dr. Egberts returns to Calgary!
August 2020 - Nic's paper in Nanoscale Advances is highlighted by Nanosensors! [link]
July 2020 - Nic's paper on examining dynamic sliding contacts with conductive AFM is published in Nanoscale Advances! [link]
April 2020 - Nic's paper using non-contact AFM to measure surface adhesive forces is published in the Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology! [link]
September 2019 - Dr. Egberts starts his sabbatical in Hamburg!
August 2019 - Brandon Wong successfully defends his MSc thesis. Congratulations Brandon!!!!!!
August 2019 - Edwin Orquera joins the Nanotribology Lab to do his MSc work on tribocorrosion. Welcome Edwin!
July 2019 - Dr. Egberts and Zahra Abooalizadeh attend the Non-Contact Atomic Force Microscopy conferece in Regensburg, Germany.
July 2019 - Zahra's first paper comes out in the Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology on measuring mechanical properties of atomic defects on HOPG surfaces! Congrats Zahra!!! [link]
July 2019 - Stephanie's paper on conductive strain sensors is published in the Jounral of Colloid and Interface Science. Congrats Stephanie!!!!! [link]
June 2019 - Dr. Egberts awarded a Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researchers for his Sabbatical stay in the group of Dr. Roland Wiesendanger at the University of Hamburg.
June 2019 - Jitendra Panda joins the Nanotribology Lab to work on tribocorrosion projects and nanoparticle enhanced lubricants. Welcome Jitendra!
May 2019 - Dr. Egberts and Brandon Wong attend the STLE Annual meeting in Nashville, TN.
November 2018 - Hossein's paper describing how ultrasonic actuation of nanoscale contacts is accepted in Nanotechnology! Congrats Hossein! [link]
October 2018 - Hossein successfully defends his PhD Thesis! Congrats Hossein on the huge accomplishment!!!!!
September 2018 - We successfully moved back to the mechanical engineering building, and nothing broke!!! Thanks to everyone that made this possible!
September 2018 - Jesus's 2nd paper gets accepted into Tribology Letters. Congrats Jesus!
June 2018 - Jesus and Penny attend the Gordon Research Conference on Tribology! Great discussions and ideas were shared - watch out for some interesting publications in the next months!
June 2018 - Jesus Resendiz and Danny Wong's paper on using composite nanobeads is available online on the Journal of Manufacturing process. Congrats Jesus and Danny on your hard work! [link]
June 2018 - Carolyn Pethrick joins our group to work with Brandon Wong on developing a home-built electrochemical cell for our reciprocating tribometer. Welcome to the group Carolyn!
May 2018 - Carrie starts her 2nd summer with us! Welcome back Carrie!!!
February 2018 - Penny's paper on the impact of wetting transparency on nanoscale friction is accepted into Carbon! Congratulations Penny!!! [link]
October 2017 - Stephanie Kedzoir joins the group after finishing her PhD with Emily Cranston at McMaster University! Welcome Stephanie!
July 2017 - Brandon Wong joins the group! Welcome Brandon!
May 2017 - Carrie Lin starts her USRA summer project with Jesus on macroscale tribology. Welcome to the group Carrie!!!!
March 2017 - Penny's first paper from her MSc work is published in Tribology Letters! Congrats Penny!!!!! [link]
January 2017 - Hossein's first paper from his work in Calgary is published in Nanoscale! Congrats Hossein!!! [link]
January 2017 - The new Lica DM6000 M optical microscope was installed. Looking forward to the exciting work we can do with our new microscope.
December 2016 - Nic's papers are available online. Check them out:
- Tip convolution in tapping mode AFM [link]
- The influence of a Moiré pattern on friction for graphene on Pt(111) substrate [link]
October 2016 - UHV AFM arrives in Calgary. Looking forward to some exciting times in the Nanotribology Lab!
September 2016 - Nic successfully defends his MSc thesis! Congrats Nic on all of your hard work!
July 2016 - Lin joins the group from China with a Mitacs fellowship! Welcome to Calgary Lin!
May 2nd, 2016 - Martin joins the group. Welcome Martin!!
April 2016 - Paper on exploring mechanisms for friction hysteresis accepted into ACS Nano. [link]
March 2016 - CFI grant approved for the purchase of a UHV-AFM!!! Look out for our new instrument in the next few months!
January 2016 - Welcome Zahra, Hossein, Mary, and Calvin to the Nanotribology group!
December 16, 2015 - Philip Egberts gives nanoTalk at the UofC. [link]
December 2015 - Philip Egberts awarded "Excellence in Review" for the journal Carbon. [link]
October 2015 - Welcome Zahra Abooalizadeh (PhD Candidate) and Jan Czibor!
July 2015 - Jesus Rezendiz gets his first paper accepted! Congratulations Jesus. [link]
April 2015 - Michael Bianchini and Nicholas Simin join the group for the summer. Welcome Mike and Nick!
April 2015 - New simulation paper of tapping mode AFM accepted for publication in Nanotechnology. Congratulations to Shelly (Xiaoli) Hu on all of her hard work!
April 2015 - Michael Bianchini receives an NSERC USRA for his summer research project in the Egberts group. Congratulations Michael!
March 2015 - Philip Egberts receives the "Excellence in Review Award" from the journal Carbon.
March 6th, 2015 - PRL on velocity dependent friction accepted and Xin Liu (Carpick Group) accepted a job at Intel. Congrats to Xin!
January 2015 - Philip Egberts is invited to speak at the Alberta Nano Research Symposium.
January 2015 - Karolyn Mackowiak, a 2nd year Waterloo Nanoengineering Co-op student, joins the group. Welcome Karolyn.
November 2014 - Philip Egberts and the group are featured by the Canadian Society of Mechanical Engineers.
October 2014 - Jorge Zapote, a 2nd year undergrad, joined the group part time. Welcome Jorge!
September 2014 - Peng Gong and Nic Chan being their masters projects!
July 23rd, 2014 - New paper discussing the influence of mechanical noise on velocity dependent friction now available! [link to paper]
May 5th, 2014 - Mayesha and Ruvimbo being their undergraduate research projects. Good luck setting up the lab!
April 29th, 2014 - Paper available online examining the friction properties of CVD grown graphene on polycrystalline substrates.
January 28th, 2014 - Xin's paper examining the influence of low out-of-plane mechanical rigidity of graphene films and the effect of environment on adhesive forces between an AFM tip and the graphene substrate is now available online. Congrats Xin on your first first-author publication - Job well done! [link to paper]
September 18th, 2013 - Viewpoint: Friction at the atomic scale was published that covers a recent article by Jay Weymouth at the University of Regensburg and his novel use of the q-Plus to measure friction properties of Si(100) surfaces. Please see http://physics.aps.org/articles/v6/102for the viewpoint article and http://prl.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v111/i12/e126103 for the article by Dr. Weymouth.
September 1st, 2013 - Arrived in Calgary