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most citedContact of Single Asperities with Varying Adhesion: Comparing Continuum Mechanics to Atomistic Simulations

157 citations · 291 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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cond-mat.mes-hall2024★ 7 cited

pyMSER -- An open-source library for automatic equilibration detection in molecular simulations

Felipe Lopes Oliveira, Binquan Luan, Pierre Mothé Esteves +2

Automated molecular simulations are used extensively for predicting material properties. Typically, these simulations exhibit two regimes: a dynamic equilibration part, followed by…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 41 cited

CRAFTED -- An exploratory database of simulated adsorption isotherms of metal-organic frameworks

Felipe Lopes Oliveira, Conor Cleeton, Rodrigo Neumann Barros Ferreira +4

Grand Canonical Monte Carlo is an important method for performing molecular-level simulations and assisting the study and development of nanoporous materials for gas capture applic…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022

AI powered, automated discovery of polymer membranes for carbon capture

Ronaldo Giro, Hsianghan Hsu, Akihiro Kishimoto +6

The generation of molecules with Artificial Intelligence (AI) is poised to revolutionize materials discovery. Potential applications range from development of potent drugs to effic…

cond-mat.mes-hall2020★ 16 cited

Nanopores in atomically thin 2D nanosheets limit aqueous ssDNA transport

Alex Smolyanitsky, Binquan Luan

Nanopores in 2D materials are highly desirable for DNA sequencing, yet achieving single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) transport through them is challenging. Using density functional theory…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2009★ 70 cited

Contact and Friction of Nano-Asperities: Effects of Adsorbed Monolayers

Shengfeng Cheng, Binquan Luan, Mark O. Robbins

Molecular dynamics simulations are used to study contact between a rigid, nonadhesive, spherical tip with radius of order 30nm and a flat elastic substrate covered with a fluid mon…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2006★ 157 cited

Contact of Single Asperities with Varying Adhesion: Comparing Continuum Mechanics to Atomistic Simulations

Binquan Luan, Mark O. Robbins

Atomistic simulations are used to test the equations of continuum contact mechanics in nanometer scale contacts. Nominally spherical tips, made by bending crystals or cutting cryst…