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Design guidelines for two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenide alloys
Andrea Silva, Jiangming Cao, Tomas Polcar +1
Two-dimensional (2D) materials and Transition Metal Dichalcogenides (TMD) in particular are at the forefront of nanotechnology. To tailor properties for engineering applications, a…
Frictionless nanohighways on crystalline surfaces
Emanuele Panizon, Andrea Silva, Xin Cao +5
The understanding of friction at nano-scales, ruled by the regular arrangement of atoms, is surprisingly incomplete. Here we provide a unified understanding by studying the interlo…
Pettifor Maps of Complex Ternary Two-dimensional Transition Metal Sulphides
Andrea Silva, Jiangming Cao, Tomas Polcar +1
Alloying is an established strategy to tune the properties of bulk compounds for desired applications. With the advent of nanotechnology, the same strategy can be applied to 2D mat…
Critical Peeling of Tethered Nanoribbons
Andrea Silva, Erio Tosatti, Andrea Vanossi
The peeling of an immobile adsorbed membrane is a well known problem in engineering and macroscopic tribology. In the classic setup, picking up at one extreme and pulling off resul…
Moiré-pattern evolution couples rotational and translational friction at crystalline interfaces
Xin Cao, Andrea Silva, Emanuele Panizon +4
The sliding motion of objects is typically governed by their friction with the underlying surface. Compared to translational friction, however, rotational friction has received muc…
Multi-scale model predicting friction of crystalline materials
Paola C. Torche, Andrea Silva, Denis Kramer +2
We present a multi-scale computational framework suitable for designing solid lubricant interfaces fully in silico. The approach is based on stochastic thermodynamics founded on th…