Nanofriction under the lens of MD simulations

Series: 
Lecture
Speaker and affiliation: 
Dr. Roberto Guerra University of Milan, Italy
Date: 
Tue, 2022-10-11 13:00 to 14:30
Venue: 
online: https://www.gotomeet.me/NCBJmeetings/nomaten-seminar / In-person: Proton 251 seminar room, PNT, NCBJ
Abstract: 

The high complexity of dealing with systems with many degrees of freedom under a strict size confinement arises especially in sliding friction phenomena, where the key mechanisms take place at a buried interface. In the last three decades, developments in nanotechnology have extended the experimental study of friction, permitting the analysis on well-characterized materials and surfaces at the nano and mesoscale. Here, by presenting three case studies related to the frictional properties of deposited metallic clusters [1,2], physisorbed graphene nanoribbons [3,4], and instabilities in disordered materials [5,6], I show how modeling and molecular dynamics simulations can help in advancing our theoretical understanding in the field of nanotribology.

 

 

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