Boosting contact sliding and wear protection via atomic intermixing and tailoring of nanoscale interfaces

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Boosting contact sliding and wear protection via atomic intermixing and tailoring of nanoscale interfaces

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Some Results of the EU Project FASTGRID

Plasmonic nanobar-on-mirror antenna with giant local chirality: a new platform for ultrafast chiral single-photon emission

Surface roughness evolution in adhesive wear processes

Adhesive wear with a coarse-grained discrete element model

In Situ Formed Z-Scheme Graphdiyne Heterojunction Realizes NIR-Photocatalytic Oxygen Evolution and Selective Radiosensitization for Hypoxic Tumors

Role of interfacial adhesion on minimum wear particle size and roughness evolution

Tribocorrosion of a CoCrMo alloy in sulfuric acid - Glycerol mixtures

A mechanistic model for the growth of cylindrical debris particles in the presence of adhesion

Fretting-corrosion behavior of electroless Ni-P/Ni-P-TiO2 coatings obtained on AZ91D magnesium alloy by a chromium-free process

Influence of Bovine Serum Albumin (BSA) on the Tribocorrosion Behaviour of a Low Carbon CoCrMo Alloy in Simulated Body Fluids

Load-induced dynamical transitions at graphene interfaces

Adhesion of a tape loop

Nanoscale interfacial engineering enables highly stable and efficient perovskite photovoltaics

Introducing a biomimetic coating for graphene neuroelectronics: toward in-vivo applications

Tribocorrosion behaviour of pure titanium in bovine serum albumin solution: A multiscale study