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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…
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…
Quantum-mechanically enhanced water flow in sub-nanometer carbon nanotubes
Alberto Ambrosetti, Giorgio Palermo, Pier Luigi Silvestrelli
Water-flow in carbon nanotubes (CNT's) starkly contradicts classical fluid mechanics, with permeabilities that can exceed no-slip Haagen-Poiseuille predictions by two to five order…
Improving the description of interlayer bonding in TiS2 by Density Functional Theory
Ricci Matteo, Ambrosetti Alberto, Silvestrelli Pier Luigi
We investigate energetic and electronic properties of TiS2 , an archetypal van der Waals (vdW) material, from first principles, in the framework of the Density Functional Theory (D…
Hidden by graphene -- towards effective screening of interface van der Waals interactions via monolayer coating
Alberto Ambrosetti, Pier Luigi Silvestrelli
Recent atomic force microscopy (AFM) experiments~[ACS Nano {\bf 2014}, 8, 12410-12417] conducted on graphene-coated SiO demonstrated that monolayer graphene (G) can effectively…
Physical Adsorption at the Nanoscale: Towards Controllable Scaling of the Substrate-Adsorbate van der Waals Interaction
Alberto Ambrosetti, Pier Luigi Silvestrelli, Alexandre Tkatchenko
The Lifshitz-Zaremba-Kohn (LZK) theory is commonly considered as the correct large-distance limit for the van der Waals (vdW) interaction of adsorbates (atoms, molecules, or nanopa…