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Does rotational melting make molecular crystal surfaces more slippery?

Published:2014 Issue:21 Volume:6 Page:13163-13168
ISSN:2040-3364
Container-title:Nanoscale
language:en
Short-container-title:Nanoscale

Author:

Benassi Andrea¹²,Vanossi Andrea³⁴⁵⁴,Pignedoli Carlo A.¹²,Passerone Daniele¹²,Tosatti Erio⁵⁴³⁴⁶

Affiliation:

1. Empa-Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology

2. CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland

3. CNR-IOM Democritos National Simulation Center

4. I-34136 Trieste, Italy

5. International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA)

6. International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP)

Abstract

The surface of a crystal made of roughly spherical molecules exposes, above its bulk rotational phase transition at T = T_r, a carpet of freely rotating molecules, possibly functioning as “nanobearings” in sliding friction.

Funder

European Science Foundation

Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe AISBL

European Cooperation in Science and Technology

Swiss National Science Foundation

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Subject

General Materials Science

Link

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2014/NR/C4NR04641B

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