{"id":1290,"date":"2020-11-23T15:25:57","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T14:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tribchem.it\/?page_id=1290"},"modified":"2025-12-15T14:06:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T14:06:20","slug":"advancing-solid-interface-and-lubricants-by-first-principles-materials-design","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tribchem.it\/?page_id=1290","title":{"rendered":"Advancing Solid Interface and Lubricants by First Principles Materials Design (SLIDE)"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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“Advancing Solid Interface and Lubricants by First Principles Material Design” (SLIDE) is a project founded by the European Research Council through a Consolidator Grant and hosted by the University of Bologna. The principal investigator is Prof. Maria Clelia Righi. The activities started on November the 1st 2020. The goal of the project is to port material design paradigm based on first principles material discovery to the field of tribology to advance the study of solid interfaces and design materials to reduce friction.”<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Friction and wear result in massive energy and environmental costs. By improving tribology technologies, a huge amount of energy could be saved<\/strong>, with a corresponding reduction in fuel consumption and carbon dioxide emissions. Tribology technologies are nowadays based entirely on materials. Improving lubricant materials is not an easy task, as their function is governed by atomistic processes that occur at the buried sliding interface, which is very difficult to monitor in real time by experiments. Simulations can play a crucial role here, in particular those based on a quantum mechanical approach, which is essential for an accurate description of the chemical reactions occurring conditions of enhanced reactivity imposed by the mechanical stresses applied.<\/p>\n

The goal of SLIDE is to port the most advanced paradigms for materials modeling and design into the field of tribology and perform:<\/p>\n

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  1. In silico<\/em> experiments to advance lubricants<\/strong>. SLIDE will focus, in particular, on the development of environmentally friendly alternatives to commercial additives used in engine oils;<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. High-throughput screening<\/strong> of the adhesion and shear strength of solid interfaces<\/strong>. The (machine learning) analysis of the populated database will allow for predictive understanding.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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    Invited Presentations at International Conferences and Invited Seminars<\/strong>\n
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    1. Njord seminar series\u00a0(Invited Seminar)<\/em>, 24 October 2025, Online<\/li>\n
    2. CECAM workshop “Back to the future: Molecular simulation 40 years after Varenna”\u00a0<\/em>, 24-26 September 2025, Rome (Italy)<\/li>\n
    3. 2025 IEEE 15th International Conference Nanomaterials: Applications & Properties\u00a0<\/em>, 7-12 September 2025, Bratislava (Slovakia)<\/li>\n
    4. ESMC 2025, 2th European Solid Mechanics Conference<\/em>, 7-11 July 2025, Lyon (France)<\/li>\n
    5. Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Invited seminar)<\/em>, 16\u201317 June 2025, Zurich (Switzerland)<\/li>\n
    6. PASC25<\/em>, 16-18 June 2025, Brugg (Switzerland)<\/li>\n
    7. Workshop on Computational Physics and Materials Science: Total Energy and Force Method<\/em>, 8-10 January 2025, Trieste (Italy)<\/li>\n
    8. Master in Science Communication at SISSA (Invited Conference)<\/em>, 7 January 2025, Trieste (Italy)<\/li>\n
    9. Summit of Materials Science 2024 and GIMRT User Meeting 2024<\/em>, 27-28 November 2024, Sendai (Japan)<\/li>\n
    10. Nothwestern Polytechnical University (NPU) in Xi’an (Invited Seminar)<\/em>, 25 November 2024, Xi’an (China)<\/li>\n
    11. Politecnico di Torino (Invited Seminar)<\/em>, 16 October 2024, Torino (Italy)<\/li>\n
    12. Condensed Matter Theory CMT@Brixen<\/em>, 27-29 August 2024, Bressanone (Italy)<\/li>\n
    13. International Symposium on Computational Structure Prediction and Advanced Materials<\/em>, 22-23 August 2024, Lavien La neuve (Belgium)<\/li>\n
    14. 78th STLE Annual Meeting & Exhibition<\/em>, 19\u201323 May 2024, Minneapolis (USA)<\/li>\n
    15. Friction 2024<\/em>, 26\u201327 February 2024, Oberhof (Germany)<\/li>\n
    16. MolSImEng 2023<\/em>, 6 October 2023, Milan (Italy)<\/li>\n
    17. International Tribology Conference 2023<\/em>, 25\u201330 September 2023, Fukuoka (Japan)<\/li>\n
    18. Tribochemistry Beppu 2023<\/em>, 22\u201324 September 2023, Beppu (Japan)<\/li>\n
    19. FEMS EuroMat 2023<\/em>, 3\u20137 September 2023, Frankfurt (Germany)<\/li>\n
    20. Virtual Symposium: Digital Tribology<\/em>, 19\u201320 July 2023, Online<\/li>\n
    21. Tribology – Gordon Research Conference<\/em>, 23\u201328 June 2023, Lewiston (USA)<\/li>\n
    22. Tribology International Conference<\/em>, 26\u201328 April 2023, Lisbon (Portugal)<\/li>\n
    23. WeSSt Web Seminar Series on Tribology<\/em>, 22 December 2023, Online<\/li>\n
    24. Junior Euromat 2022<\/em>, 19\u201322 July 2022, Coimbra (Portugal)<\/li>\n
    25. Nordtrib<\/em>, 14\u201316 June 2022, Alesund (Norway)<\/li>\n
    26. Tribochemistry<\/em>, 6-8 June 2022, Beune (France)<\/li>\n
    27. The International Conference on Metallurgical Coatings and Thin Films (ICMCTF)<\/em>, 22\u201327 May 2022, San Diego (USA)<\/li>\n
    28. Tribology International Conference<\/em>, 27\u201329 April 2022, Online<\/li>\n
    29. 2D Mat<\/em>, 1 February 2022, Online<\/li>\n
    30. IUPAC World Chemistry Congress 2021 Virtual<\/em>, 19 August 2021, Online<\/li>\n
    31. STLE Annual Meeting & Exhibition<\/em>, 19 May 2021, Online<\/li>\n
    32. Vienna Virtual Materials Tribology Workshop<\/em>, 24 November 2020, Online<\/li>\n
    33. WeSSt Web Seminar Series on Tribology<\/em>, 16 June 2020, Online<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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      Developed and Released Computational Tools<\/strong><\/div>\n
      For more details on the software tools, visit the Software & Databases page<\/a>.\n