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Ballistic atomic transport in narrow carbon nanotubes
Alberto Ambrosetti, Pier Luigi Silvestrelli, John F. Dobson +1
Friction forces are conventionally modeled via semiclassical theories that associate energy dissipation with newtonian motion on corrugated interface potentials. This consolidated…
Sliding properties of Transition Metal Dichalcogenide bilayers
Pier Luigi Silvestrelli, S. Subashchandrabose, Alberto Ambrosetti +1
Transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are valuable as solid lubricants because of their layered structure, which allows for easy shearing along the basal planes. Using Density Fu…
Borophane as substrate for adsorption of He-4: A journey across dimensionality
Stefania De Palo, Saverio Moroni, Francesco Ancilotto +2
In search of substrates for adsorption of He atoms allowing for novel quantum phases in restricted geometry we study the case of borophane. We focus on two allotropes of borophane,…
Screening and antiscreening effects in endohedral nanotubes
Pier Luigi Silvestrelli, Matteo Tessarolo, Abdolvahab Seif +1
Recently we investigated from first principles screening properties in systems where small molecules, characterized by a finite electronic dipole moment, are encapsulated into diff…
Superfluidity meets the solid-state: frictionless mass-transport through a (5,5) carbon-nanotube
Alberto Ambrosetti, Pier Luigi Silvestrelli, Luca Salasnich
Superfluidity is a well-characterized quantum phenomenon which entails frictionless-motion of mesoscopic particles through a superfluid, such as He or dilute atomic-gases at ve…
Transport properties in liquids from first principles: the case of liquid water and liquid Argon
Pier Luigi Silvestrelli
Shear and bulk viscosity of liquid water and Argon are evaluated from first principles in the Density Functional Theory (DFT) framework, by performing Molecular Dynamics simulation…