Estimation of interaction energy and contact stiffness in atomic-scale sliding on a model sodium chloride surface in

Liron Agmon1, Itai Shahar1, Danny Yosufov1

  • 1Department of Chemical Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, 8410501, Israel.

Scientific Reports
|March 18, 2018
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