Sliding mechanisms in multilayered hexagonal boron nitride and graphene: The effects of directionality, thickness, and sliding constraints

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 114, Issue 9, 2015, Pages

  Gao, Wang ^a   Tkatchenko, Alexandre ^a  

^a FRITZ HABER INSTITUT DER MAX PLANCK GESELLSCHAFT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING ENERGY; BORON NITRIDE; FRICTION; GRAPHENE; NITRIDES; TRIBOLOGY; VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

DISPERSIVE FORCES; HEXAGONAL BORON NITRIDE; HEXAGONAL BORON NITRIDE (H-BN); INTERLAYER DISTANCE; INTERLAYER SLIDING; NUMBER OF LAYERS; SLIDING MECHANISM; VAN DER WAALS INTERACTION;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY;

EID: 84924359792     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.096101     Document Type: Article

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