Publications

2022

1. Mengzhou Liao, Paolo Nicolini, Luojun Du, Jiahao Yuan, Shuopei Wang, Hua Yu, Jian Tang, Peng Cheng, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Lin Gu, Victor E. P. Claerbout, Andrea Silva, Denis Kramer, Tomas Polcar, Rong Yang, Dongxia Shi, Guangyu Zhang, Ultra-low friction and edge-pinning effect in large-lattice-mismatch van der Waals heterostructures, Nature Materials, 2022
2. Talha Bin Yaqub, Todor Vuchkov, Stephanie Bruyere, Jean-Francois Pierson, Albano Cavaleiro, A revised interpretation of the mechanisms governing low friction tribolayer formation in alloyed-TMD self-lubricating coatings, Applied Surface Science, 2022

2021

1. Tomas Hudec, Andrey Bondarev, Vitalii Izai, Viktor Sroba, Leonid Satrapinskyy, Tomas Roch, Veronika Turinicova, Branislav Grancic, Tomas Polcar, Marian Mikula, Titanium doped MoSe2 coatings - Synthesis, structure, mechanical and tribological properties investigation, Applied Surface Science, 2021
2. Loukia Maritsa, Sonia Martel, Rocio Barros, Alfredo Bol, Santiago Aparicio, Additivation of MoS2 nanosheets to synthetic poly-alpha-olefins base oils: A theoretical study of nanolubrication, Journal of Molecular Liquids, 2021
3. Todor Vuchkov, Talha Bin Yaqub, Albano Cavaleiro, The influence of the deposition pressure on the composition and the mechanical properties of W-S-C coatings deposited by magnetron sputtering in semi-industrial conditions, Vacuum, 2021
4. Jamil Missaoui, Antonio Cammarata, Florian Belviso, Tomas Polcar, Effect of Noninteracting Intercalants on Layer Exfoliation in Transition-Metal Dichalcogenides, Physical Review Applied, 2021
5. Victor E. P. Claerbout, Paolo Nicolini, Tomas Polcar, Exploring Nanoscale Lubrication Mechanisms of Multilayer MoS2 During Sliding: The Effect of Humidity, Frontiers in Chemistry, 2021
6. Paola C. Torche, Paolo Nicolini, Ondrej Hovorka, Tomas Polcar, Stochastic thermodynamics of nanoscale friction, Physical Review E, 2021
7. Ales Rapuc, He Wang, Tomas Polcar, Nanotribology of transition metal dichalcogenide flakes deposited by chemical vapour deposition: The influence of chemical composition and sliding speed on nanoscale friction of monolayers, Applied Surface Science, 2021
8. Brixhilda Domi, Kapil Bhorkar, Carlos Rumbo, Labrini Sygellou, Sonia Martel Martin, Roberto Quesada, Spyros N. Yannopoulos, Juan Antonio Tamayo-Ramos, Toxicological assessment of commercial monolayer tungsten disulfide nanomaterials aqueous suspensions using human A549 cells and the model fungus Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Chemosphere, 2021
9. Brixhilda Domi, Kapil Bhorkar, Carlos Rumbo, Labrini Sygellou, Spyros N. Yannopoulos, Rocio Barros, Roberto Quesada, Juan Antonio Tamayo-Ramos, Assessment of Physico-Chemical and Toxicological Properties of Commercial 2D Boron Nitride Nanopowder and Nanoplatelets, International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2021
10. Tomas Hudec, Vitalii Izai, Leonid Satrapinskyy, Teodor Huminiuc, Tomas Roch, Maros Gregor, Branislav Grancic, Marian Mikula, Tomas Polcar, Structure, mechanical and tribological properties of MoSe2 and Mo-Se-N solid lubricant coatings, Surface and Coatings Technology, 2021
11. Kaushik Hebbar Kannur, Teodor Huminiuc, Talha Bin Yaqub, Tomas Polcar, Christophe Pupier, Christophe Héau, Albano Cavaleiro, An insight on the MoS2 tribo-film formation to determine the friction performance of Mo-S-N sputtered coatings, Surface and Coatings Technology, 2021
12. Tomas Hudec, Tomas Roch, Maros Gregor, Lubomir Orovcik, Marian Mikula, Tomas Polcar, Tribological behaviour of Mo-S-N solid lubricant coatings in vacuum, nitrogen gas and elevated temperatures, Surface and Coatings Technology, 2021
13. Andrea Silva, Tomas Polcar, Denis Kramer, Phase behaviour of (Ti:Mo)S2 binary alloys arising from electron-lattice coupling, Computational Materials Science, 2021

2020

1. Loukia Maritsa, Alfredo Bol, Santiago Aparicio, Quasi-smectic liquid crystal phase of octane in contact with 2D MoS2, Applied Surface Science, 2020
2. Ales Rapuc, Kosta Simonovic, Teodor Huminiuc, Albano Cavaleiro, Tomas Polcar, Nanotribological Investigation of Sliding Properties of Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Thin Film Coatings, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 2020
3. Florian Belviso, Antonio Cammarata, Jamil Missaoui, Tomas Polcar, Effect of electric fields in low-dimensional materials: Nanofrictional response as a case study, Physical Review B, 2020
4. Mohammadreza Shamshiri, Ana Manaia, Todor Vuchkov, Alexandre Carvalho, Guilherme Gaspar, António Fernandes, Samaneh H. Dolatabadi, Florinda Costa, Albano Cavaleiro, Influence of laser structural patterning on the tribological performance of C-alloyed W-S coatings, Surface and Coatings Technology, 2020
5. Paola C. Torche, C. Munoz-Menendez, D. Serantes, D. Baldomir, K. L. Livesey, O. Chubykalo-Fesenko, S. Ruta, R. Chantrell, Ondrej Hovorka, Thermodynamics of interacting magnetic nanoparticles, Physical Review B, 2020
6. Andrea Silva, Victor E. P. Claerbout, Tomas Polcar, Denis Kramer, Paolo Nicolini, Exploring the Stability of Twisted van der Waals Heterostructures, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 2020
7. Kaushik Hebbar Kannur, Talha Bin Yaqub, Christophe Pupier, Christophe Héau, Albano Cavaleiro, Mechanical properties and vacuum tribological performance of Mo-S-N sputtered coatings, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 2020
8. Talha Bin Yaqub, Stéphanie Bruyere, Jean-François Pierson, Todor Vuchkov, Albano Cavaleiro, Insights into the wear track evolution with sliding cycles of carbon-alloyed transition metal dichalcogenide coatings, Surface and Coatings Technology, 2020
9. Todor Vuchkov, Manuel Evaristo, Talha Bin Yaqub, Albano Cavaleiro, The effect of substrate location on the composition, microstructure and mechano-tribological properties of W-S-C coatings deposited by magnetron sputtering, Surface and Coatings Technology, 2020
10. Todor Vuchkov, Talha Bin Yaqub, Manuel Evaristo, Albano Cavaleiro, Synthesis, Microstructural, and Mechano-Tribological Properties of Self-Lubricating W-S-C(H) Thin Films Deposited by Different RF Magnetron Sputtering Procedures, Coatings, 2020
11. Talha Bin Yaqub, Kaushik Hebbar Kannur, Todor Vuchkov, Christophe Pupier, Christophe Héau, Albano Cavaleiro, Molybdenum diselenide coatings as universal dry lubricants for terrestrial and aerospace applications, Materials Letters, 2020
12. Todor Vuchkov, Talha Bin Yaqub, Manuel Evaristo, Albano Cavaleiro, Synthesis, microstructural and mechanical properties of self-lubricating Mo-Se-C coatings deposited by closed-field unbalanced magnetron sputtering, Surface and Coatings Technology, 2020
13. Brixhilda Domi, Kapil Bhorkar, Carlos Rumbo, Labrini Sygellou, Spyros N. Yannopoulos, Roberto Quesada, Juan Antonio Tamayo-Ramos, Fate assessment of commercial 2D MoS2 aqueous dispersions at physicochemical and toxicological level, Nanotechnology, 2020
14. Loukia Maritsa, Alfredo Bol, Santiago Aparicio, Densification and tribofilm formation in hydrocarbon nanofluids induced by MoS2 nanotubes, Journal of Molecular Liquids, 2020
15. Kaushik Hebbar Kannur, Talha Bin Yaqub, Teodor Huminiuc, Tomas Polcar, Christophe Pupier, Christophe Héau, Albano Cavaleiro, Synthesis and structural properties of Mo-S-N sputtered coatings, Applied Surface Science, 2020
16. Talha Bin Yaqub, Todor Vuchkov, Pedro Sanguino, Tomas Polcar, Albano Cavaleiro, Comparative Study of DC and RF Sputtered MoSe 2 Coatings Containing Carbon—An Approach to Optimize Stoichiometry, Microstructure, Crystallinity and Hardness, Coatings, 2020
17. Todor Vuchkov, Manuel Evaristo, Talha Bin Yaqub, Tomas Polcar, Albano Cavaleiro, Synthesis, microstructure and mechanical properties of W–S–C self-lubricant thin films deposited by magnetron sputtering, Tribology International, 2020
18. Brixhilda Domi, Carlos Rumbo, Javier García-Tojal, Livia Elena Sima, Gabriela Negroiu, Juan Antonio Tamayo-Ramos, Interaction Analysis of Commercial Graphene Oxide Nanoparticles with Unicellular Systems and Biomolecules, International Journal of Molecular Science, 2020

2019

1. Florian Belviso, Victor E. P. Claerbout, Aleix Comas-Vives Naresh S. Dalal, Feng-Ren Fan, Alessio Filippetti, Vincenzo Fiorentini, Lucas Foppa, Cesare Franchini, Benjamin Geisler, Luca M. Ghiringhelli, Axel Groß, Shunbo Hu, Jorge Íñiguez, Steven Kaai Kauwe, Janice L. Musfeldt, Paolo Nicolini, Rossitza Pentcheva, Tomas Polcar, Wei Ren, Fabio Ricci, Francesco Ricci, Huseyin Sener Sen, Jonathan, Michael Skelton, Taylor D. Sparks, Alessandro Stroppa, Andrea Urru, Matthias Vandichel, Paolo Vavassori, Hua Wu, Ke Yang, Hong Jian Zhao, Danilo Puggioni, Remedios Cortese, Antonio Cammarata, Viewpoint: Atomic-Scale Design Protocols toward Energy, Electronic, Catalysis, and Sensing Applications, Inorganic Chemistry, 2019
2. Aleksandra Lelevic, Frank C. Walsh, Electrodeposition of NiP composite coatings: A review, Surface and Coatings Technology, 2019
3. Aleksandra Lelevic, Frank C. Walsh, Electrodeposition of NiP alloy coatings: A review, Surface and Coatings Technology, 2019
4. Talha Bin Yaqub, Todor Vuchkov, Manuel Evaristo, Albano Cavaleiro, DCMS Mo-Se-C solid lubricant coatings – Synthesis, structural, mechanical and tribological property investigation, Surface and Coatings Technology, 2019
5. Paola C. Torche, Tomas Polcar, Ondrej Hovorka, Thermodynamic aspects of nanoscale friction, Physical Review B, 2019
6. Tomáš Hudec, Marián Mikula, Leonid Satrapinskyy, Tomáš Roch, Martin Truchlý, Peter Švec Jr, Teodor Huminiuc, Tomáš Polcar, Structure, mechanical and tribological properties of Mo-S-N solid lubricant coatings, Applied Surface Science, 2019
7. Victor E. P. Claerbout, Tomáš Polcar, Paolo Nicolini, Superlubricity achieved for commensurate sliding: MoS2 frictional anisotropy in silico, Computational Materials Science, 2019
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