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cond-mat.soft2015

Sliding droplets of Xanthan solutions: a joint experimental and numerical study

Silvia Varagnolo, Giampaolo Mistura, Matteo Pierno +1

We have investigated the sliding of droplets made of solutions of Xanthan, a stiff rodlike polysaccharide exhibiting a non-newtonian behavior, notably characterized by a shear-rate…

cond-mat.mes-hall2015★ 39 cited

Frictional Transition from Superlubric Islands to Pinned Monolayers

Matteo Pierno, Lorenzo Bruschi, Giampaolo Mistura +6

The inertial sliding of physisorbed submonolayer islands on crystal surfaces contains unexpected information on the exceptionally incommensurate smooth sliding state associated wit…