Popular science and outreach
2025
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- Tribological demonstrators in lego, including structural superlubricity, hand-cranked tribometer, and Prandtl-Tomlinson model.
- Article in EOS written by Nathaniel Scharping, Insights for Making Quick Clay Landslides Less Quick, about our paper in Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, Molecular dynamics simulations of nanoscale friction on illite clay: Effects of solvent salt ions and electric double layer.
- Popular science piece written by Steinar Brandslet about our article in Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, Molecular dynamics simulations of nanoscale friction on illite clay: Effects of solvent salt ions and electric double layer. In Norwegian: Nå vet forskerne mer om hvorfor kvikkleiren er så ustabil and Forskere vil finne ut hvorfor kvikkleiren er så ustabil. In English: Researchers want to find out why quick clay is so unstable, posted on Norwegian SciTech News, EurekAlert!, and AlphaGalileo
2024
- New method can enhance treatment for resistant blood cancer, piece written by Steinar Brandslet about our article Beyond IC50—A computational dynamic model of drug resistance in enzyme inhibition treatment, also in norwegian: Nye funn kan gi bedre behandling mot blodkreft.
- New findings could lead to better treatment for blood cancer, press release from our collaborators at Linnaeus University in Sweden about our article Beyond IC50—A computational dynamic model of drug resistance in enzyme inhibition treatment.
2022
- Cellulose - naturlig plast (in norwegian), blog post by Eivind on the TekNat blog, about our paper Computational study of the dissolution of cellulose into single chains: the role of the solvent and agitation.
- 40 EU-millioner for å redusere verdens energibruk (in norwegian), popular science article by Espen Sletvold about our new EIC Pathfinder project on superlubricity.
- 4 million Euros to pioneering research that can reduce the world’s energy use, article on NTNU Nyheter by Sara Ylva Louise Edin about our new EIC Pathfinder project on superlubricity.
2021
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- How to deal with urgent global challenges, a blog post by our collaborator Dr. Andrew Rignsmuth on the Complexity Science Hub Vienna's blog, about our paper on dynamics of collective action to conserve a large common-pool resource. Picked up by several Austrian news outlets (in german): Austria Presse Argentur, ORF Syria online, Salzburg24, Der Standard, Kronen Zeitung, and an interview with Andrew (in english).
- To deal with the climate crisis we need to break our social bubbles, a blog post by Astrid on the TekNat blog, about our paper on dynamics of collective action to conserve a large common-pool resource.
2020
- A new model for friction, article in Nature Reviews Physics by Giulia Pacchioni, discussing our paper in Nature Communications on friction of 2D materials.
- A simple way of describing friction — by making it complicated, article on phys.org by Nancy Bazilchuk about our paper in Nature Communications on friction of 2D materials.
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- Friction at small scales, blogpost by Astrid on the fysikum blog at Stockholm University about our paper on friction in electrochemical systems.