733 citations · 8.4k across the 187 of their papers we have counts for
187 papers
My friend Alex Müller
Erio Tosatti
Alex, the main discoverer of high Tc superconductivity, was also a dear friend. Here I offer a few frank anecdotes, possibly inaccurate in some details but heartfelt and accurate i…
Anisotropic Rheology and Friction of Suspended Graphene
Andrea Mescola, Andrea Silva, Ali Khosravi +4
Graphene is a powerful membrane prototype for both applications and fundamental research. Rheological phenomena including indentation, twisting, and wrinkling in deposited and susp…
Kinetic Friction of Structurally Superlubric 2D Material Interfaces
Jin Wang, Ming Ma, Erio Tosatti
The ultra-low kinetic friction F_k of 2D structurally superlubric interfaces, connected with the fast motion of the incommensurate moiré pattern, is often invoked for its linear in…
Sliding and Pinning in Structurally Lubric 2D Material Interfaces
Jin Wang, Ali Khosravi, Andrea Vanossi +1
A plethora of two-dimensional (2D) materials entered the physics and engineering scene in the last two decades. Their robust, membrane-like sheet permit -- mostly require -- deposi…
Bending Stiffness Collapse, Buckling, Topological Bands of Freestanding Twisted Bilayer Graphene
Jin Wang, Ali Khosravi, Andrea Silva +3
The freestanding twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) is unstable, below a critical twist angle θ_c~3.7 degrees, against a moire (2 \times 1) buckling distortion at T=0. Realistic simula…
Frictionless nanohighways on crystalline surfaces
Emanuele Panizon, Andrea Silva, Xin Cao +5
The understanding of friction at nano-scales, ruled by the regular arrangement of atoms, is surprisingly incomplete. Here we provide a unified understanding by studying the interlo…