Search Results - "Moras, Gianpietro"
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Mechano-chemical decomposition of organic friction modifiers with multiple reactive centres induces superlubricity of ta-C
Published in Nature communications (11-01-2019)“…Superlubricity of tetrahedral amorphous carbon (ta-C) coatings under boundary lubrication with organic friction modifiers is important for industrial…”
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Friction Regimes of Water-Lubricated Diamond (111): Role of Interfacial Ether Groups and Tribo-Induced Aromatic Surface Reconstructions
Published in Physical review letters (31-08-2017)“…Large-scale quantum molecular dynamics of water-lubricated diamond (111) surfaces in sliding contact reveals multiple friction regimes. While water starvation…”
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Interplay of mechanics and chemistry governs wear of diamond-like carbon coatings interacting with ZDDP-additivated lubricants
Published in Nature communications (27-07-2021)“…Friction and wear reduction by diamond-like carbon (DLC) in automotive applications can be affected by zinc-dialkyldithiophosphate (ZDDP), which is widely used…”
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Relating Dry Friction to Interdigitation of Surface Passivation Species: A Molecular Dynamics Study on Amorphous Carbon
Published in Materials (30-04-2022)“…Friction in boundary lubrication is strongly influenced by the atomic structure of the sliding surfaces. In this work, friction between dry amorphous carbon…”
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A Combined Experimental and Atomistic Investigation of PTFE Double Transfer Film Formation and Lubrication in Rolling Point Contacts
Published in Tribology letters (01-12-2021)“…Solid lubricants such as polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) are used in rolling-element bearings (REBs) when conventional lubrication (i.e. by fluids or greases)…”
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In Situ Synthesis of Graphene Nitride Nanolayers on Glycerol-Lubricated Si3N4 for Superlubricity Applications
Published in ACS applied nano materials (26-03-2021)“…The increasing demand for sustainable tribology has accelerated the development of environmentally friendly lubrication solutions such as water or…”
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Atomically smooth stress-corrosion cleavage of a hydrogen-implanted crystal
Published in Physical review letters (13-08-2010)“…We present a quantum-accurate multiscale study of how hydrogen-filled discoidal "platelet" defects grow inside a silicon crystal. Dynamical simulations of a…”
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Solid-Phase Silicon Homoepitaxy via Shear-Induced Amorphization and Recrystallization
Published in Physical review letters (17-09-2021)“…We study mechanically induced phase transitions at tribological interfaces between silicon crystals using reactive molecular dynamics. The simulations reveal…”
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Steric Effects Control Dry Friction of H- and F‑Terminated Carbon Surfaces
Published in ACS applied materials & interfaces (19-02-2020)“…A stable passivation of surface dangling bonds underlies the outstanding friction properties of diamond and diamond-like carbon (DLC) coatings in boundary…”
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An All-Atom Force Field for Dry and Water-Lubricated Carbon Tribological Interfaces
Published in Journal of physical chemistry. C (21-03-2024)“…We present a nonreactive force field for molecular dynamics simulations of interfaces between amorphous carbon surfaces and their interaction with water. The…”
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Activation and mechanochemical breaking of C–C bonds initiate wear of diamond (110) surfaces in contact with silica
Published in Carbon (New York) (01-03-2016)“…Diamond surfaces wear when sliding against silica – a much softer material. Although this plays a major role in chemical mechanical planarization of diamond or…”
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Fluorine-Terminated Diamond Surfaces as Dense Dipole Lattices: The Electrostatic Origin of Polar Hydrophobicity
Published in Journal of the American Chemical Society (30-03-2016)“…Despite the pronounced polarity of C–F bonds, many fluorinated carbon compounds are hydrophobic: a controversial phenomenon known as “polar hydrophobicity”…”
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Superlubricity of Silicon-Based Ceramics Sliding against Hydrogenated Amorphous Carbon in Ultrahigh Vacuum: Mechanisms of Transfer Film Formation
Published in ACS applied materials & interfaces (14-02-2024)“…Tribological interfaces between silicon-based ceramics, such as Si3N4 or SiC, are characterized by high friction and wear in unlubricated conditions. A…”
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Surface Depassivation via B–O Dative Bonds Affects the Friction Performance of B‑Doped Carbon Coatings
Published in ACS applied materials & interfaces (10-04-2024)“…Boron doping of diamond-like carbon coatings has multiple effects on their tribological properties. While boron typically reduces wear in cutting applications,…”
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Formation and Oxidation of Linear Carbon Chains and Their Role in the Wear of Carbon Materials
Published in Tribology letters (01-12-2011)“…The atomic-scale processes taking place during the sliding of diamond and diamond-like carbon surfaces are investigated using classical molecular dynamics…”
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Toward a continuum description of lubrication in highly pressurized nanometer-wide constrictions: The importance of accurate slip laws
Published in Science advances (01-12-2023)“…The Reynolds lubrication equation (RLE) is widely used to design sliding contacts in mechanical machinery. While providing an excellent description of…”
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Progressive Shortening of sp-Hybridized Carbon Chains through Oxygen-Induced Cleavage
Published in Journal of physical chemistry. C (22-12-2011)“…Linear sp-hybridized carbon chains have recently been proposed as one-dimensional nanostructures for electronic applications and as intermediate products in…”
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Ab initio derived force-field parameters for molecular dynamics simulations of deprotonated amorphous-SiO2/water interfaces
Published in physica status solidi (b) (01-02-2012)“…We present a set of Coulomb point charges and van der Waals parameters for molecular dynamics simulations of interfaces between natively deprotonated amorphous…”
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Multiwall Carbon Nanotubes for Solid Lubrication of Highly Loaded Contacts
Published in ACS applied nano materials (10-02-2023)“…When lubrication of rolling bearings with oil or grease is not possible, for example because the lubricant evaporates in vacuum, solid lubrication by multiwall…”
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matscipy: materials science at the atomic scale with Python
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