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Faraday-cage screening reveals intrinsic aspects of the van der Waals attraction
Musen Li, Jeffrey R. Reimers, John F. Dobson +1
General properties of the recently observed screening of the van der Waals (vdW) attraction between a silica substrate and silica tip by insertion of graphene are predicted using b…
Layer Response Theory: Energetics of layered materials from semi-analytic high-level theory
John F. Dobson, Tim Gould, Sebastien Lebegue
We present a readily computable semi-analytic Layer Response Theory (LRT) for analysis of cohesive energetics involving two-dimensional layers such as BN or graphene. The theory ap…
Binding and interlayer force in the near-contact region of two graphite slabs: experiment and theory
Tim Gould, Ze Liu, Jefferson Zhe Liu +3
Via a novel experiment, Liu \emph{et al.} [Phys. Rev. B, {\bf 85}, 205418 (2012)] estimated the graphite binding energy, specifically the cleavage energy, an important physical pro…
Dispersion corrections in graphenic systems: a simple and effective model of binding
Tim Gould, S. Lebègue, John F. Dobson
We combine high-level theoretical and \emph{ab initio} understanding of graphite to develop a simple, parametrised force-field model of interlayer binding in graphite, including th…
van der Waals dispersion power laws for cleavage, exfoliation and stretching in multi-scale, layered systems
Tim Gould, Evan Gray, John F. Dobson
Layered and nanotubular systems that are metallic or graphitic are known to exhibit unusual dispersive van der Waals (vdW) power laws under some circumstances. In this letter we in…
A theoretical and semiemprical correction to the long-range dispersion power law of stretched graphite
Tim Gould, Ken Simpkins, John F. Dobson
In recent years intercalated and pillared graphitic systems have come under increasing scrutiny because of their potential for modern energy technologies. While traditional \emph{a…