Friction of water on graphene and hexagonal boron nitride from Ab initio methods: Very different slippage despite very similar interface structures

Nano Letters

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 6872-6877

  Tocci, Gabriele ^a   Joly, Laurent ^b   Michaelides, Angelos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

ab initio molecular dynamics; boron nitride; graphene; liquid solid friction; liquid solid interfaces; nanoscale water

Indexed keywords

BORON NITRIDE; DESALINATION; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; FRICTION; GRAPHENE; LIQUIDS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NITRIDES; TRIBOLOGY;

AB INITIO MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; FRICTION COEFFICIENTS; HEXAGONAL BORON NITRIDE; INTERFACE STRUCTURES; LIQUID/SOLID INTERFACE; NANO SCALE; STRUCTURE AND ENERGETICS; WETTING PROPERTY;

PHASE INTERFACES;

EID: 84916607011     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl502837d     Document Type: Article

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