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Kaibo Wang1, Hao Li1, Yufeng Guo1

  • 1State Key Laboratory of Mechanics and Control of Mechanical Structures and MOE Key Laboratory for Intelligent Nano Materials and Devices, College of Aerospace Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, China.

Materials (Basel, Switzerland)
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first-principles calculationsfriction anisotropypressurethicknesstwo-dimensional crystals

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