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SUPERLUBRICITY

Slippery in every direction

Nature Materials volume 17, pages 852–854 (2018)Cite this article

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A graphite and hexagonal boron nitride heterojunction enables superlubric sliding, almost independent of alignment orientation, in micrometre-sized contacts under ‘real-life’ working conditions.

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Fig. 1: Schematic representation of the superlubric sliding at constant velocity (Vstage) in hBN–graphite heterojunctions.

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    J. G. Vilhena

  2. Department of Theoretical Physics of Condensed Matter and Condensed Matter Physics Center (IFIMAC), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

    Rubén Pérez

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Vilhena, J.G., Pérez, R. Slippery in every direction. Nature Mater 17, 852–854 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-018-0172-8

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