Smallest Archimedean Screw: Facet Dynamics and Friction in Multiwalled Nanotubes

Roberto Guerra1, Itai Leven2, Andrea Vanossi3,4

  • 1Center for Complexity and Biosystems, Department of Physics, University of Milan , 20133 Milan, Italy.

Nano Letters
|August 11, 2017
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