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ArticleACS nano2024

Effect of Interlayer Bonding on Superlubric Sliding of Graphene Contacts: A Machine-Learning Potential Study.

Penghua Ying, Amir Natan, Oded Hod, Michael Urbakh

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Article in ACS nano, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Can Neural Networks Learn Atomic Stick-Slip Friction?ACS applied materials & interfaces · 2025
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  6. Chemifriction and Superlubricity: Friends or Foes?The journal of physical chemistry letters · 2025
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  7. Superlubric Graphullerene.Nano letters · 2024
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Penghua YingDepartment of Physical Chemistry, School of Chemistry, The Raymond and Beverly Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences and The Sackler Center for Computational Molecular and Materials Science, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 6997801, Israel.ORCID 0000-0002-5758-2369
Amir NatanDepartment of Physical Electronics, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 6997801, Israel.ORCID 0000-0003-4517-5667
Oded HodDepartment of Physical Chemistry, School of Chemistry, The Raymond and Beverly Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences and The Sackler Center for Computational Molecular and Materials Science, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 6997801, Israel.ORCID 0000-0003-3790-8613
Michael UrbakhDepartment of Physical Chemistry, School of Chemistry, The Raymond and Beverly Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences and The Sackler Center for Computational Molecular and Materials Science, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 6997801, Israel.ORCID 0000-0002-3959-5414

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Abstract

Surface defects and their mutual interactions are anticipated to affect the superlubric sliding of incommensurate layered material interfaces. Atomistic understanding of this phenomenon is limited due to the high computational cost of ab initio simulations and the absence of reliable classical force-fields for molecular dynamics simulations of defected systems. To address this, we present a machine-learning potential (MLP) for bilayer defected graphene, utilizing state-of-the-art graph neural networks trained against many-body dispersion corrected density functional theory calculations under iterative configuration space exploration. The developed MLP is utilized to study the impact of interlayer bonding on the friction of bilayer defected graphene interfaces. While a mild effect on the sliding dynamics of aligned graphene interfaces is observed, the friction coefficients of incommensurate graphene interfaces are found to significantly increase due to interlayer bonding, nearly pushing the system out of the superlubric regime. The methodology utilized herein is of general nature and can be adapted to describe other homogeneous and heterogeneous defected layered material interfaces.

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Atomic defectsGraphene interfacesInterlayer bondingMachine-learning potentialsMolecular dynamicsNanoscale frictionStructural superlubricity

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