3 papers
cond-mat.mes-hall2024
Frictional Dissipation and Scaling Laws at van der Waals Interface: The Key Role of Elastic Pinning of Moiré at Edges and Corners
Xiang Gao, Weidong Yan, Wengen Ouyang +3
Van der Waals heterogeneous interfaces are promising candidates for the scaling up of structural superlubricity to meet practical applications. Several factors, however, have been…
cond-mat.mes-hall2024
Chemifriction and Superlubricity: Friends or Foes?
Penghua Ying, Xiang Gao, Amir Natan +2
The mechanisms underlying chemifriction, i.e. the contribution of interfacial bonding to friction in defected twisted graphene interfaces are revealed using fully atomistic machine…
cond-mat.mes-hall2024
Emerging chirality and moiré dynamics in twisted layered material heterostructures
Andrea Silva, Xiang Gao, Melisa M. Gianetti +5
Moiré superstructures arising at twisted 2D interfaces have recently attracted the attention of the scientific community due to exotic quantum states and unique mechanical and tri…