Frictional transition from superlubric islands to pinned monolayers

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 714-718

  Pierno, Matteo ^a   Bruschi, Lorenzo ^b   Mistura, Giampaolo ^a   Paolicelli, Guido ^c   Di Bona, Alessandro ^c   Valeri, Sergio ^c,d   Guerra, Roberto ^e,f   Vanossi, Andrea ^e,f   Tosatti, Erio ^e,f,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b Unita CISM GNSM Padova   (Italy)

^c CNR   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^e SISSA   (Italy)

^f IOM CNR LABORATORIO TASC   (Italy)

^g ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRICTION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; QUARTZ; QUARTZ CRYSTAL MICROBALANCES;

CRYSTAL SURFACES; FUTURE APPLICATIONS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; PHYSISORBED; SLIDING STATE; SUBMONOLAYER COVERAGE; SUBMONOLAYER ISLANDS; SUPERLUBRICITY;

MONOLAYERS;

COPPER; XENON;

ADHESION; ARTICLE; COMPRESSION; ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; FREQUENCY MODULATION; FRICTION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUARTZ CRYSTAL MICROBALANCE; SUPERLUBRICITY;

EID: 84938749554     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2015.106     Document Type: Article

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