Xudong Sui received his PhD from the Northeastern University in China in 2017 where he studied advanced hard coatings for high speed cutting titanium alloy under Prof. Dr. Qiang Wang and Prof. Dr. Guojian Li. After graduation, Dr. Sui joined Prof. Weimin Liu’s group in the State Key Laboratory of Solid Lubrication, Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Science. There, he was engaged in the design and preparation of high-performance lubricating and protective coatings and research on tribological mechanisms and was promoted to associate professor in 2018. He has authored more than 40 papers in peer-reviewed journals. Since 2024, he is a visiting researcher at TU Wien to continue his tribological research career at the Gachot Tribology Group.

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• PVD Coating Technology: MS, HIPIMS, In-tube Deposition, ARC…
• Advanced coatings: Nitride, Carbon based, 2D materials, High entropy…
• Tribology: Tribochemistry, Superlubricity, Solid lubrication…

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© Hanglin Li

Hanglin Li is a PhD student majoring in physical chemistry in East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST, China). He has studied in Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Science supervised by Prof. Jiusheng Li for five years, focusing on the interfacial lubrication of graphene oxide. He joined the Gachot’s Tribology Group at TU Wien in 2024 as a one-year visiting student supported by the Chinese Scholarship Council. In Vienna he continues his research on tribology on 2D materials.

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© Matteo Vezzelli

Matteo graduated in Chemistry from the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. He carried out his Master's thesis research at Curtin University in Perth, Australia, focusing on the design and synthesis of Rhenium complexes for bacterial imaging, under the supervision of Professors Massimiliano Massi and Luca Rigamonti.

Currently, Matteo is pursuing a Ph.D. in Physics at the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Bologna, under the supervision of Professor Maria Clelia Righi. His research is focused in the field of materials science, in particular mechanochemistry, using ab initio simulations. He is also a visiting researcher at the Vienna University of Technology, where he collaborates with Professor Carsten Gachot on experimental and computational studies of solid lubrication.

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© Edoardo Marquis

Edoardo completed his master’s degree in chemistry at the University of Turin in 2020, focusing on the application and validation of semi-empirical computational approaches for predicting the chemical and physical properties of molecules and nano-clusters. Following this, he joined the Tribology Group at the University of Bologna under the supervision of Prof M. Clelia Righi, first as a post-graduate research assistant and from 2021 as a PhD candidate. 
Edoardo’s research is focused on the investigation of new materials for tribological applications by means of density functional theory simulations. From the very beginning of his PhD period, he had the chance to collaborate closely with Prof. Gachot and Dr. Grützmacher, both experts on the study of 2D materials for solid lubrication. In November 2023, Edoardo started a six-month period as a visiting student in Prof. Gachot's Tribology Group, continuing his research on 2D materials and their applications in solid lubrication.

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