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Sliding states of a soft-colloid cluster crystal: Cluster versus single-particle hopping
Mirko Rossini, Lorenzo Consonni, Andrea Stenco +2
We study a two-dimensional model for interacting colloidal particles which displays spontaneous clustering. Within this model we investigate the competition between the pinning to…
GeVn complexes for silicon-based room-temperature single-atom nanoelectronics
Simona Achilli, Nicola Manini, Giovanni Onida +3
We characterize germanium-vacancy GeVn complexes in silicon using first-principles Density Functional Theory calculations with screening-dependent hybrid functionals. We report on…
Experimental observation of the Aubry transition in two-dimensional colloidal monolayers
T. Brazda, A. Silva, N. Manini +4
The possibility to achieve entirely frictionless, i.e. superlubric, sliding between solids, holds enormous potential for the operation of mechanical devices. At small length scales…
Analytic understanding and control of dynamical friction
Emanuele Panizon, Giuseppe E. Santoro, Erio Tosatti +2
Recent model simulations discovered unexpected non-monotonic features in the wear-free dry phononic friction as a function of the sliding speed. Here we demonstrate that a rather s…
Lifted graphene nanoribbons on gold: from smooth sliding to multiple stick-slip regimes
Lorenzo Gigli, Nicola Manini, Erio Tosatti +2
Graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) physisorbed on a Au(111) surface can be picked up, lifted at one end, and made slide by means of the tip of an atomic-force microscope. The dynamical tr…