Welcome to the Carpick Nanotribology Group’s webpage at the University of Pennsylvania. We are an interdisciplinary group of researchers who are interested in studying the fundamental origins and the important applications of friction, adhesion, wear, and lubrication at the nanoscale.
Members of the Carpick Group in the Quain Courtyard. From left to right: Dr. Mehmet G. Sensoy, Li Yuan, Dr. Cangyu Qu, Lu Fang, Dr. Danny Sánchez, Prof. Robert Carpick, Michael Moriarty, Dr. Pranjal Nautiyal, Dr. Brandon McClimon, Mariana Donato, Parker LaMascus.
Prof. Robert Carpick will be giving his CMCC Mechanochemistry Discussions seminar: The Stress-Controlled Mechanochemical Reactor: A Novel Tool to Determine...
Carpick Research Group principal investigator Rob Carpick gave a talk entitled "Seeing the Hidden Interface: Revealing Nanoscale Mechanisms of Contact,...
Postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Danny Sánchez, presented preliminary results from a collaborative project studying the mechanics of spontaneously folding two-dimensional materials...