People
Prof. Dr. Lars Pastewka
Principal Investigator Research Areas A, B and C
Full Professor, Simulation
Faculty of Engineering | Department of Microsystems Engineering
University of Freiburg
Phone: +49 761 203 67480
Email: lars.pastewka@imtek.uni-freiburg.de
Areas of Expertise
Multiscale simulation of materials | Micromechanics of materials | Materials interfaces | Surface forces | Tribology
Projects within livMatS
- Resilient hierarchical microfluidic networks for fuel transport and information processing
- The mistletoe-host interface as model for long-term integrity by damage prevention and repair
- TriboMech - Programmable Triboelectric Energy Harvesting through Mechanical Design
- Hierarchically Programmable Materials with Propagating Stimulus Responsive Elements and Metamaterial Ultrastructuring
- Interfaces, charge-transfer and non-adiabatic processes and their exploitation in a frequency-tunable tribogenerator
- Abscission and self-repair in biological and artificial materials systems
- Training and self-healing by interface snapping mechanisms
Doctoral Researchers (first supervisor)
Completed Doctoral Researchers (first supervisor)
Publications in livMatS
- Why soft contacts are stickier when breaking than when making them*
Sanner, A., Kumar, N., Dhinojwala, A., Jacobs, T. D., & Pastewka, L. (2024). Why soft contacts are stickier when breaking than when making them. Sci. Adv.10,eadl1277(2024). doi:10.1126/sciadv.adl1277 - The bumpy road to friction control*
Slesarenko, V., Pastewka, L. (2024). The bumpy road to friction control. Science 383,150-151. doi: 10.1126/science.adn1075 - Elastic property and fracture mechanics of lateral branch-branch junctions in cacti: A case study of Opuntia ficus-indica and Cylindropuntia bigelovii*
Mylo, M. D., Hoppe, A., Pastewka, L., Speck, T., & Speck, O. Elastic properties and fracture mechanics of lateral branch-branch junctions in cacti: a case study of Opuntia ficus-indica and Cylindropuntia bigelovii. Frontiers in Plant Science, 2947. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2022.950860 - Molecular Mechanisms of Self-mated Hydrogel Friction*
Mees, J., Simič, R., O’Connor, T. C., Spencer, N. D., & Pastewka, L. (2023). Molecular mechanisms of self-mated hydrogel friction. Tribology Letters , 71(3), 74. doi: 10.1007/s11249-023-01746-z - Entropic stress of grafted polymer chains in shear flow*
Mees, J., O'Connor, T. C., & Pastewka, L. (2023). Entropic stress of grafted polymer chains in shear flow. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 159, 094902. doi: 10.1063/5.0158245 - Surface topography as a material parameter*
Jacobs, T. D., Pastewka, L., & Guest Editors. (2022). Surface topography as a material parameter. MRS bulletin, 47(12), 1205-1210. doi: 10.1557/s43577-022-00465-5 - Fractal geometry of contacting patches in rough elastic contacts*
Monti, J. M., Pastewka, L., & Robbins, M. O. (2022). Fractal geometry of contacting patches in rough elastic contacts. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 104797. doi: 10.1016/j.jmps.2022.104797 - Crack-front model for adhesion of soft elastic spheres with chemical heterogeneity*
Sanner, A., & Pastewka, L. (2022). Crack-front model for adhesion of soft elastic spheres with chemical heterogeneity. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 104781. doi: 10.1016/j.jmps.2022.104781 - Contact. engineering—Create, analyze and publish digital surface twins from topography measurements across many scales*
Röttger, M. C., Sanner, A., Thimons, L. A., Junge, T., Gujrati, A., Monti, J. M., Nöhring, W. G., Jacobs, T. D. B. & Pastewka, L. (2022). Contact. engineering—Create, analyze and publish digital surface twins from topography measurements across many scales. Surface Topography: Metrology and Properties, 10(3), 035032. doi: 10.1088/2051-672X/ac860a - Elimination of ringing artifacts by finite-element projection in FFT-based homogenization*
Leute, R. J., Ladecký, M., Falsafi, A., Jödicke, I., Pultarová, I., Zeman, J., Junge, T. & Pastewka, L. (2022). Elimination of ringing artifacts by finite-element projection in FFT-based homogenization. Journal of Computational Physics, 110931. doi: 10.1016/j.jcp.2021.110931 - Scale-dependent roughness parameters for topography analysis*
Sanner, A., Nöhring, W. G., Thimons, L. A., Jacobs, T. D., & Pastewka, L. (2021). Scale-dependent roughness parameters for topography analysis. Applied Surface Science Advances, 7: 100190. doi: 10.1016/j.apsadv.2021.100190 - Comprehensive topography characterization of polycrystalline diamond coatings*
Gujrati, A., Sanner, A., Khanal, S. R., Moldovan, N., Zeng, H., Pastewka, L., & Jacobs, T. D. (2021). Comprehensive topography characterization of polycrystalline diamond coatings. Surface Topography: Metrology and Properties, 9(1), 014003. doi: 10.1088/2051-672X/abe71f - Distribution of Gaps and Adhesive Interaction Between Contacting Rough Surfaces*
Monti, J. M., Sanner, A., & Pastewka, L. (2021). Distribution of Gaps and Adhesive Interaction Between Contacting Rough Surfaces. Tribology Letters, 69(3), 1-8. doi: 10.1007/s11249-021-01454-6 - Hard-material Adhesion: Which Scales of Roughness Matter?*
Thimons, L. A., Gujrati, A., Sanner, A., Pastewka, L., & Jacobs, T. D. B. (2021). Hard-material Adhesion: Which Scales of Roughness Matter?. Experimental Mechanics, 1-12. doi: 10.1007/s11340-021-00733-6
* Funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany's Excellence Strategy – EXC-2193/1 – 390951807