Carbon-Based Materials

Ultra-low friction of graphene/C₆₀/graphene coatings for realistic rough surfaces

Friction and wear of a diamond-like-carbon tip at different loading forces

Haoxuan Li , Paulo S. Branicio, Ultralow friction of graphene-coated silica nanoparticle film, Computational Materials Science, 204, 111184, 2022.
Peng Geng, Paulo S. Branicio, Atomistic insights on the pressure-induced multi-layer graphene to diamond-like structure transformation, Carbon, 175, 243, 2021.
Haoxuan Li, Paulo S. Branicio, Ultra-low friction of graphene/C₆₀/graphene coatings for realistic rough surfaces, Carbon, 152, 727, 2019.
P. S. Branicio, G. Vastola, M. H. Jhon, M. B. Sullivan, V. B. Shenoy, and D. J. Srolovitz, Elastic interaction of hydrogen atoms on graphene: A multiscale approach from first principles to continuum elasticity, Physical Review B, 94, 165420, 2016.
Z. D. Sha, V. Sorkin, P. S. Branicio, Q. X. Pei, Y. W. Zhang, D.J. Srolovitz, Large-scale molecular dynamics simulations of wear in diamond-like carbon at the nanoscale, Applied Physics Letters, 103, 073118, 2013.
Z. D. Sha, P. S. Branicio, Q. X. Pei, V. Sorkin, Y. W. Zhang, A modified Tersoff potential for pure and hydrogenated diamond-like carbon, Computational Materials Science, 67, 146, 2013.
P. S. Branicio, Atomistic Simulations of Mechanical Behavior in Nanocrystalline Diamond and Ceramics, International Symposium on Advanced Materials Having Multi-Degree-of-Freedom Proceedings, 2012.
P. S. Branicio, M.H. Jhon, D. J. Srolovitz, Engineering materials properties in codimension > 0, Journal of Materials Research, 27, 619, 2012.
Z. D. Sha, P. S. Branicio, V. Sorkin, Q. X. Pei, Y. W. Zhang, Effects of grain size and temperature on mechanical and failure properties of ultrananocrystalline diamond, Diamond and Related Materials, 20, 1303, 2011.
P. S. Branicio, M. H. Jhon, C. K. Gan, D. J. Srolovitz, Properties on the edge: graphene edge energies, edge stresses, edge warping, and the Wulff shape of graphene flakes, Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering, 19, 054002, 2011.
P. S. Branicio and D. J. Srolovitz, Material Properties in Codimension > 0: Graphene Edge Properties, Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings, 1258, R01-06, 2010.