Measuring and understanding contact area at the nanoscale: a review

TDB Jacobs, A Martini - Applied Mechanics Reviews, 2017 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
The size of the mechanical contact between nanoscale bodies that are pressed together
under load has implications for adhesion, friction, and electrical and thermal transport at …

Self‐assembled silane monolayers: an efficient step‐by‐step recipe for high‐quality, low energy surfaces

M Lessel, O Bäumchen, M Klos, H Hähl… - Surface and …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Organosilane self‐assembled monolayers (SAMs) are commonly used for modifying a wide
range of substrates. Depending on the end group, highly hydrophobic or hydrophilic …

[HTML][HTML] Contact area of rough spheres: Large scale simulations and simple scaling laws

L Pastewka, MO Robbins - Applied Physics Letters, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
We use molecular simulations to study the nonadhesive and adhesive atomic-scale contact
of rough spheres with radii ranging from nanometers to micrometers over more than ten …

Controlling Macroscopic Friction through Interfacial Siloxane Bonding

L Peng, CC Hsu, C **ao, D Bonn, B Weber - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
Controlling macroscopic friction is crucial for numerous natural and industrial applications,
ranging from forecasting earthquakes to miniaturizing semiconductor devices, but predicting …

Load and time dependence of interfacial chemical bond-induced friction at the nanoscale

K Tian, NN Gosvami, DL Goldsby, Y Liu, I Szlufarska… - Physical Review Letters, 2017 - APS
Rate and state friction (RSF) laws are widely used empirical relationships that describe the
macroscale frictional behavior of a broad range of materials, including rocks found in the …

Toward Optimal Heat Transfer of 2D–3D Heterostructures via van der Waals Binding Effects

L Zhang, Y Zhong, X Qian, Q Song, J Zhou… - … Applied Materials & …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Two-dimensional (2D) materials and their heterogeneous integration have enabled
promising electronic and photonic applications. However, significant thermal challenges …

Electrically tunable van der Waals interaction in graphene–molecule complex

M Muruganathan, J Sun, T Imamura, H Mizuta - Nano letters, 2015 - ACS Publications
van der Waals (vdW) interactions play a central role in the surface-related physics and
chemistry. Tuning of the correlated charge fluctuation in a vdW complex is a plausible way of …

Many-body dispersion in model systems and the sensitivity of self-consistent screening

KR Bryenton, ER Johnson - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
London dispersion is a weak, attractive, intermolecular force that occurs due to interactions
between instantaneous dipole moments. While individual dispersion contributions are small …

What is “many-body” dispersion and should I worry about it?

A Otero-de-la-Roza, LM LeBlanc… - Physical chemistry …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Inclusion of dispersion effects in density-functional calculations is now standard practice in
computational chemistry. In many dispersion models, the dispersion energy is written as a …

[HTML][HTML] Effect of sonication on the mechanical response of graphene nanoplatelets/glass fabric/epoxy laminated nanocomposites

GV Seretis, ID Theodorakopoulos… - Composites Part B …, 2018 - Elsevier
This study focuses on the effect of sonication process time on the morphological
characteristics of the graphene nanoplatelets (GNPs) and the mechanical performance of …