The Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology (WIN) and the Department of Chemical Engineering present a Distinguished Lecture by Professor Jacob Israelachvili, in the Chemical Engineering Department of the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB), United States.
Adhesion, friction & lubrication of surfaces & liquid films and their relation to diverse phenomena such as how geckos climb on walls and ceilings, surface damage, and sensing
Abstract
Professor Jacob Israelachvili
Jacob
Israelachvili
received
his
PhD
in
Physics
in
1972
from
the
Surface
Physics
Department
of
the
Cavendish
Laboratory
at
the
University
of
Cambridge,
England.
After
a
two-year
European
Molecular
Biology
Organization
(EMBO)
research
fellowship
at
the
University
of
Stockholm,
he
left
for
Australia
where,
from
1974
to
1986,
he
lead
an
experimental
research
laboratory
devoted
to
measuring
the
forces
between
surfaces
and
in
1982
he
was
elected
a
member
of
the
Australian
Academy
of
Science.
In
1986
he
joined
the
faculty
of
the
University
of
California
at
Santa
Barbara
where
he
holds
joint
appointments
as
Professor
in
the
Department
of
Chemical
Engineering,
the
Materials
Department
and
the
Biomolecular
Science
and
Engineering
Department.
He
was
the
Associate
Director
of
the
Materials
Research
Laboratory
at
UCSB
from
1993
until
2003.
His
many
awards
include
the
AIChE
Alpha
Chi
Sigma
Award,
the
Adhesion
Society
Award
for
Excellence
in
Adhesion
Science,
the
ACS
National
Award
in
Colloid
and
Surface
Chemistry
and
the
MRS
Medal.
Jacob
is
a
Fellow
of
the
American
Physical
Society
and
of
the
Royal
Society
of
London.
He
is
also
a
member
of
the
US
National
Academy
of
Engineering
and
of
the
US
National
Academy
of
Sciences.
He
is
the
author
of
a
textbook
entitled
"Intermolecular
and
Surface
Forces"
(Academic
Press,
3rd
Edition:
2010)
for
which
he
was
awarded
the
AIChE
Walker
Award
for
Excellence
in
contributions
to
Chemical
Engineering
literature.
He
was
recently
named
by
the
AIChE
in
a
list
of
“One
Hundred
Chemical
Engineers
of
the
Modern
Era”,
elected
to
the
fellowship
of
the
American
Academy
of
Science
(AAAS),
and
received
the
world's
highest
award
in
tribology,
the
2013
Tribology
Gold
Medal
Award,
for
pioneering
contributions
to
the
technology
and
science
of
friction
and
wear.