About 30% of the world's primary energy consumption is in friction. The economic losses
caused by friction energy dissipation and wear account for about 2%–7% of its gross …

Hydrogels capable of swift mechanical energy dissipation hold promise for a range of
applications including impact protection, shock absorption, and enhanced damage …

Macroscopic friction is the result of the interplay of several processes occurring at different
scales; an atom-scale description of the tribological interactions is then paramount for the …

Friction represents a major energy dissipation mode, yet the atomistic mechanism of how
friction converts mechanical motion into heat remains elusive. It has been suggested that …

Mo-Se-N films were prepared by pulsed direct current (DC) High Target Utilisation
Sputtering (HiTUS) in reactive Ar+ N 2 atmosphere. Here, the effect of nitrogen do** was …

Employing fast Fourier transform (FFT) of instantaneous friction and interfacial phonon
spectrum, phononic origin of friction between graphene layers, in which one layer suffering …

Understanding the nanoscale friction properties of 2D materials and further manipulating
their friction behaviors is of great significance for the development of various …

Nanostructured materials are essential building blocks for the fabrication of new devices for
energy harvesting/storage, sensing, catalysis, magnetic, and optoelectronic applications …

A proper control of nanoscale friction is mandatory for the fabrication and operation of
optimal nanoengineered devices. In this respect, the use of electric fields looks to be …

Phonon–phonon scattering processes are the crucial phenomena which account for phonon
decay, thermal expansion, heat transfer, protein dynamics, spin relaxation and related …