Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Does Rotational Melting Make Molecular Crystal Surfaces More Slippery?

Nanoscale , 2014, Accepted Manuscript

DOI: 10.1039/C4NR04641B, Paper

Andrea Benassi, Andrea Vanossi, Carlo Antonio Pignedoli, Daniele Passerone, Erio Tosatti

The surface of a crystal made of roughly spherical molecules exposes, above its bulk rotational phase transition at T= Tr, a carpet of freely rotating molecules, possibly functioning as "nanobearings"...

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